[MPlayer-users] Re: Still can play some avi's with the xv display driver on a G400

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > > > if x11 cvs didn't fix the problem, contact the driver author...
> > > > we can't help.
> > > 
> > > But he said he has a Matrox G400 (original post is
> > > http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-June/017450.html)? It
> > > shouldn't really have problems with xv now should it? Then again it
> > > seems he really is running X from CVS, so maybe that's the problem.
> > 
> > the Xv driver for matrox is bullshit... i've recently looked at the source
> > and it's full of bugs and misunderstanding of the card registers.
> > 
> > use -vo xmga, it should work.
> 
> Which means I can no longer use mplayer, because xmga is a linux only
> driver and won't work on NetBSD.

argh then RTFM
mga_vid has been ported to vidix interface which works on BSD too
ie use -vo xvidix:mga_vid for non-linux

> > yes, i could fix those bugs and send patch to x11 authors, but it has no
> > much sense, as the Xv is broken by design, missing features like triple
> > buffering and direct rendering.
> 
> I really wish you would do that, so other non linux system could still
> use mplayer, even if that means that it doesn't work so good.

try vidix first
it was designed to replace xv, but currently only ati and matrox cards are
supported


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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