[MPlayer-users] Re: Display is cut in half using xv

Dimitar Haralanov fulcrumusa at netscape.net
Tue Aug 12 05:49:25 CEST 2003


This is Dell Latitude laptop running a Mandrake Linux 9.0 so, as far as I know, it is pretty much the same as RedHat.

Why should I copy the trident.o file. Is that a general file that works on any type of card or only for the Trident cards?

Thanx

Mitko

Chris Frey <cdfrey at netdirect.ca> wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>What kind of machine is it?  I've heard of this problem with an IBM Thinkpad
>playing DVDs, and the solution was to go back a version on the XFree86
>video driver.  i.e. copy the RedHat 8.0 trident.o into the RedHat 9.0
>install.
>
>This happened on Gentoo as well, so it was an X thing, not a distribution
>thing.
>
>Hope that gives you a lead,
>- Chris
>
>On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:12:51PM -0400, Dimitar Haralanov wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, I am new to Mplayer so please, excuse my lack of knowledge. I got the source for the player from the website and compiled it without any hitches.
>> 
>> However, the problem showed up when I tried to play some avi files. In fact any files that I tried to play had the same problem. The problem in question is that the display only displayed the left half of the image.
>> 
>> The only thing that was able to display the entire image was the gl output driver.
>> 
>> I am not sure whether the half screen is a problem with this release but the only information that I have been able to find on the subject was a message to this list a year ago with no responses.
>> 
>> Thanx
>> 
>> Mitko
>> 
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