[MPlayer-users] Color crash after 10 min. with -vo vesa

[Luke Harrison]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:30:12PM -0500, Patrick A . Kirchner wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello,
> 
> I accidentally posted this question to the Matrox user's
> group.  Sorry for the mistake.
> 
> I have the latest version of MPlayer (0.90pre5) installed
> on a Linux RH 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18) Toshiba Libretto laptop
> with a Neo Magic video card.
> 
> When I play DivX 5 encoded avi's they look fantastic using
> the vesa vo output driver.  But after exactly ten minutes
> of playing the movie, the colors go crazy.  All the colors
> go bad and it looks horrible, but still plays.  If I stop
> the movie and restart ten minutes into it, it looks great
> again, but then after another 10 minutes the colors go
> crazy again.
> 
> Any ideas?
Id read DOCS/bugreports.html
then sumbit a full bug-report.. 
For example, -vc used would probably help diagonose the 
problem.


> 
> I like the vesa output is that it uses my entire LCD screen
> to show a 320x240 sized movie, whereas in X Windows, the
> same movie shown using the -fs switch only plays in a tiny
> window.  I don't have the color problem in X windows even
> after 10 minutes.
> 
> My two questions are:
> 
> 1.  Can I fix the vesa color distortion problem somehow?
> 
> 2.  Is there a way to fit a movie to the whole screen using
>     -vo -x11 ?
Yes, there is a way, -zoom -fs 
but it will be ass-slow, so I wouldnt' recomend it.

> 
> Thanks much for everyone's work on this great program and for
> any assistance you may offer.
> 
> Patrick.
> 
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Luke Harrison
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