[MPlayer-users] mplayer & console @fb

[Mark Zealey]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:32:15PM +0900, Maximo Ramos wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> 	Asunto: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer & console @fb
> 	Fecha: Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:13:52AM +0000
> 
> Time to reply!
> 
> Citando a  Mark Zealey (mark at zealos.org):
> > > Hi Rich!
> > > 
> > > Yes, indeed, with -vo mga the geometry option doesn't do anything :(
> > > 
> > > I tried with -vo fbdev and it works, but shows the movie in the upper-left corner, not
> > > the upper-right corner ... Something weird is that with -vo fbdev I cann't switch consoles
> > > (alt+F<> doesn't work), something I intented to do in the first place.
> > > 
> > > Thanks anyway for the tip!
> > 
> > Yep - it outputs using the fb layer, wihch overrides any output that the
> > consoles may output. I always work in the console and watch films - I'm using
> > -geometry 100%:0 (which should work - arpi reversed the X-style syntax i
> > believe) with -vo tdfxfb which i wrote so that i could watch stuff in the
> > console. I'm not really sure about non-voodoo cards though as i don't have one
> > myself
> 
> hhhmm, -vo fbdev -geometry 100%:0 works the way I want!! :)
> 
> sadly to say, I can't switch to other consoles to work in other stuff :(
> so it's useless ...

indeed - i don't believe that that's possible with fbdev... what card do you
have maybe a card-specific one would do it

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