[MPlayer-users] Ati Tvout with mplayer

[Felix Buenemann]

On Friday 31 May 2002 11:23, nebehajv at freemail.hu wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi!
>
> I have an Ati XPert 2000 video card (with rage128 chip).
> The problem is, that the TV out function does not work
> correctly. If the TV cable is connected during boot,
> everything works - until I start X. Then the screen blanks.
> When I switch back to console, again, everything is fine, but
> the display of X can not be seen at all. I use XFree 4.0.2, and tried
> with 4.2.0 too, with the gatos driver in both cases.
> If I change the driver from 'r128' to 'vesa', it works correctly,
> but the position of the screen can not be adjusted, and with no
> hardware acceleration (very slow). The vesa driver does not accept
> modelines I give it, so I can not set the right position.
> What should I do for correct display? There is no way for the vesa
> driver to give modelines? Could the original X or the gatos drivers
> be used with this card and TVout? I need X anyway, because I work on an X
> application, which uses MPlayer for playing movies.

RTFM, it's described there (hint: -vo vesa:vidix or sth. like that).
> Thanx,

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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