[Mplayer-users] video output

[Felix Bünemann]

Hello Arpi,

Friday, July 20, 2001, 9:10:33 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

>> I have a 1.2 gig athlon and a geforce 3 card.  Mplayer has been working 
>> great, but yesterday, i hooked my computer up to my tv through the geforce 3 
>> s-video out.  When i did this, mplayer wouldn't let my run my movies with -vo 
>> xv which is what i usually use because it's fastest.  x11 and sdl seemed to 
>> slow to run full screen at 800x600 ( the video kept laggin).  I then triedm 
>> fsdga which worked great except it doesn't actually fill up the full screen.  
>> Mplayer takes over full screen but the actually video size is probably only 
>> half the size of the screen.  any ideas?
>> 

> <flame>
> nvidia sucks...
> </flame>

> Xv usually doesn't work on TV-out ports.
> it's a special thing, handled by DAC chips.
> TV-out doesn't support YUV overlays.
> (there is a trick for matrox g400 to swap heads, this way you can route
> signal from DAC to TV-out... but it's a horrible hack)

> about fsdga: it's obsoleted, and very buggy.
> use -vo sdl if you want full-screen with software scaling.
and use -vo sdl:dga then, it's apparently fastest with software
scaling.

> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team


-- 
Best regards,
 Felix                            mailto:atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net



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