[Mplayer-users] i got a problem

[Felix Buenemann]

On Monday, 2. July 2001 10:33, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > i get the OSD on both screens flickering. I am using
> > the xv drivers, and tried increasing the number of
> > buffers used up to 2 then upto 8 (in vo_xv.c as
> > advised in the FAQ page) to no avail. Some interesting
> > things i have noticed about this problem are:
> > *if one mplayer is started, and hidden from view (eg
> > behind another unrelated window) and then the second
> > one is started, then the second one will play normally
> > until the first one is brought into view again. This
> > leads me to believe there is some kind of shared
> > buffer problem. However, my c and c++ is very weak (i
>
> yes. AFAIK currently no PC video card available (at least
> with Xv drivers, I don't know about professional cards)
> which can do multiple overlays at the same time.
hmm whats then with NVidia cards + Nvidia Drivers and the grab port xv stuff 
in current cvs or 0.18pre?
>
> so you can't do it, it's a hardware limitation!
> one window will work, multiple won't.
> you should try -vo x11 or gl instead of xv
>
> > MPlayer 0.17a-IdegCounter  (C) 2000-2001 Arpad
>
> you shouldn't use 0.17a... it's very old & buggy.
> try 0.18pre3
>
> > and when i do a ps axf on it, i get told mplayer is an
> > RW process (ie it is on the run que,but has no
> > resident pages). I have stopped this problem with the
> > very dodgy method of doing a
>
> i think it's problem with your audio card driver.
> try 0.18pre...
>
> >      XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Window System
> >     nVidia TNT2 Ultra pro 32MB SDRAM (i think?)
> >     X built-in driver (i think?)
hmm, think only nvidias binary drivers can do xvideo, so I guess you have 
those (but maybe XF 4.0.3 builtin can do it, only checked with 4.0.2)
>
> impossible. 4.0.3 has no built-in Xv driver for nvidia cards.
>
> > - sound card type & driver
> >   AC97 codec soundcard with 4Kb buffer (built into the
> > mother board).
>
> OSS or ALSA driver?
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
>
> --
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> http://esp-team.scene.hu
>
-- 
Best Regards,
   Felix

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