[MPlayer-users] She Working but ...

[Ralph Slooten]

Hi,

This is the same "bug" I posted a month or 2 back.. getting the brightness
to work with SDL (where I did get told to RTFM:-)). With the standard
output here (without stating -vo .... , I would believe to be xv)
everything works great, except I have my taskbar showing at the bottom of
my screen, something the SDL does not have. The SDL gives a great pic and
total coverage of the screen-area, just no control over the brightness :-(
Subtitles and so on also get put in the black space, and not on the picture 
with SDL which is great!

I had this with every version of the NVidia drivers, and now even the
latest (1.0-2880).

I play Unreal Tournament which also uses SDL, and there is a light setting 
in it that does work, but now what the difference between Mplayer's and 
UT's usage of the SDL is I would not know.

I tried -vo sdl:x11 which does not change things. It's just the same as -vo 
sdl. Great pic, no brightness / contrast / whatever control. 

I hope this can maybe clear some things up, or at least define the problem,

Greetings
Ralph



On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Arpi wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Problem I have is that I need to be able to adjust brightness, 
> > contrast, etc. I need mplayer to use xv like Xine is doing as I can 
> > adjust these feature but mplayer will not work if I substitute -vo xv 
> > as it gives me this error message:
> > 
> > Couldn't find free Xvideo port - maybe other applications keep it 
> > open. Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device!
> >  
> > Is there a work around as I have a Nvidia TNT2 Pro card installed (I 
> 
> hmm. normally i woudl say RTFM, but Kabi (avifile author)told me few days
> ago, that some nvidia drivers has an Xv bug, and selecting the first adaptor
> will fail, so SDL selects teh last one to workaround it, causing problems
> with geforce cards.
> 
> please, show us the xvinfo output, and also try to compile mplayer with SDL
> support and try -vo sdl:x11 it shoudld use xv if available
> 
> if you have old driver, upgrade to the latets nvidia build, old drivers has
> a lot of silly bugs... (and imho still have, but it's flame)
> 
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> 
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