[MPlayer-users] [PATCH] auto-detect screen resolution with -vo mga

[Diego Biurrun]

Hi!

I just applied Jasons patch to my tree and it works great!  I use a
Matrox G200.  Please include this in mplayer.
Regards

Diego


Jason Lunz writes:
 > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
 > kinali at gmx.net said:
 > > it does, but you have to provide the screen resolution by
 > > -screenh, -screenw
 > 
 > I wrote the patch below to fix this. It makes the defaults for -screenh
 > and -screenw be detected from the framebuffer device. If there is a
 > problem using the framebuffer device, it falls back to the old method.
 > If you don't like the defaults detected by this patch, you can still
 > override them by using -screenh and -screenw, just like before.
 > 
 > I submitted this on mplayer-dev-eng but it wasn't accepted. Arpi, is
 > there a reason for this? Do you want me to move this stuff out of
 > vo_mga.c into the option parsing code? or what?
 > 
 > I tested this on two different mga framebuffer resolutions and it
 > worked. I tried it without framebuffer with -vo mga, but it was the same
 > as not using my patch at all: broken.
 > 
 > the patch is against current cvs.
 > 
 > Jason