[MPlayer-dev-eng] xv fails with "Source image dimensions are too high"..

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:53:10PM +0100, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > 
> > In the GeeXboX project,  we use :
> >   vo=cvidix,vesa
> > When no vidix driver fit the video card, MPlayer sucessfully fall back
> > to vesa.
> > 
> > So vo=xv,x11 should work. If it don't, maybe there is a bug in vo_xv
> > which prevent the next vo to be tried when xv fails.
> 
>   I don't think so. Also see Ivan's reply. If I am not mistaken
> this is a global architectural issue and not one local to vo xv.

Umm, MPlayer should be able to fall back on other video outputs, if it
doesn't work then that output driver is broken...

Diego