[MPlayer-users] Blur in xv output with to width movies

[gabor]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 02:06, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:34:06AM +0200, M. van de Sanden wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think I found a bug. If I play a movie, with width bigger (or equal) 
> > than the screen resolution, there is a strange blur about a quarter of the 
> > movies height, halfway down the screen on the right side. Looks like an 
> > old broken tv, or as if you scrolled the monitor image to much to one side 
> > with an old monitor. This only happens with xv output, not with x11 or sdl 
> > with -noxv. The movie has a size of 1024x576 (see included mplayer -v).
> 
> This is obviously a driver or hardware issue. There's nothing mplayer
> can do about it, most likely, except use software scaling instead of
> hardware. For example try -vop scale=800:600 (but it will be slow).
> 
> > NVidia TNT (diamond viper v550)
> > NVidia closed source drivers (sorry, but they work)
> 
> No they don't, that's why you're having this problem. Figures it's
> nvidia junk. :) Actually I think I heard the Free drivers included in
> XF86 nowadays support XV on TNT, so you might try them and see if the
> problem goes away. I might just have no idea what I'm talking about,
> though.

as i know free-xfree xv support only begins with geforce1 ( or geforce2
) ?


but if you have a fast-enough processor ( let's say 1ghz ), simply use
-vo x11 -zoom and don't care about the rest :-)

bye,
gabor

> 
> Rich
> 
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