[MPlayer-users] mplayer and tvout on nvidia

[Lethal Weapon]

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 00:35, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi!
> 
> I have a nvidia-card in my system and tried today the programm nvtv. The 
> picture quality with that is very good and I heard that xine makes use of 
> nvtv as a plugin, so if xine is started in fullscreen the monitor switches 
> off and the output goes to the tv. Now I wonder if something similar is or 
> could be done for mplayer ?!
> 
start another X that uses the tv output

( X :1 -layout tv ; or startx -- :1 -layout tv )

then DISPLAY=:1.0 mplayer -fs stuff.avi



the readme.txt of www.nvidia.com drivers is very well done and very
useful

an example of some tv layout on:

http://lethalwp.dyndns.org/~lethalwp/files/XF86Config-4


I prefer 2 xservers than 1 with twinview since twinview doesn't appear
to give me the same output quality


greetz,
	ltwp