[MPlayer-users] Re: annoying behavior of tdfxfb

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:11:08PM +0200, Marcin Cylke wrote:
> > This has been discussed several times, you are absolutely right, the
> > messages are annoying, but that is what fullscreen mode is for..
> 
> Well. Quite ironicly written. But still I think we can't understand
> eachother. It may be because of my not mentioning such stuff. I execute
> mplayer with:
> 
> $ mplayer -vo tdfxfb -fs -dr -vop yuy2 file.avi
> 
> The thing that matters is "-fs" of course. I know that while ran without
> -fs there should be text output visible. But I performed the tests on the
> newest version with the same execution line. Thus -fs enabled. And despite
> of that I see all the messages generated by mplayer.
> 
> > vo mga does not blank the screen in fullscreen mode..  Can I bribe
> > somebody into implementing this? ;-)
> 
> So you know what I'm talking about.
>  
> > That's only the first half.
> 
> Ok, I might have missed some strange error streams - what is the addition
> to what I have written?
> 
> > That frame remaining on the screen might indeed be considered a bug.
> 
> So? Developers? Should I fill the bugreport? 
> 
> The text (mplayer's messages) doesn't interfere with image.
> 
> > Use 'setterm -cursor off', best put it in a script together with mplayer
> > &> /dev/null or something.
> 
> It's a kind of solution, but does not cause the execution line to
> disappear from screen - only the cursor isn't blinking

I have answered this question before, time to put this in the FAQ ;-)

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-May/015859.html

Put something like this in a script:

#/bin/sh

setterm -cursor off
clear
mplayer $1 > /dev/null 2>&1
setterm -cursor on

Add your necessary options to the mplayer command line.  That's all.  And
yes, MPlayer should do this automatically in fullscreen mode with all vo
drivers IMHO.

Diego