[MPlayer-users] Matrox G450 and TV-out via -vo mga/xmga

[Alexander Kogan]

Hi, All!

I tried to use xmga/mga video out to play video on my TV connected to second 
head of G450. Results: it seems to work!!!!!!
HOWTO:

1. Setup G450 framebuffer drivers from 
http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.eriksen/matrox_tvout/
2. Configure second head:
matroxset -f /dev/fb0 -m 5
matroxset -f /dev/fb1 -m 2
matroxset -f /dev/fb1 -o 1 1
Now secondary outout configured to PAL
3. Set resolution to 768x576
fbset -fb /dev/fb1 768x576-50
4. Play video.
mplayer -vo xmga -vop scale=768:576 qqq.avi
Then you have window with video on your X desktop and on your TV. Scale is 
necessary because hardware scaling does not work for TV.

Only one bad thing - TV picture permanently moves up. Is anybody know what 
can I do with this bug?

-- 
Alexander Kogan
AutoWave Processes Group
Institute of Applied Physics RAS