[MPlayer-users] mplayer & console @fb

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:04:15PM +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 01:52:25AM -0500
> 
> Time to reply!
> 
> Citando a  D Richard Felker III (dalias at aerifal.cx):
> > > Perhaps he meant to watch something with the movie in the upper-right corner, not
> > > in the center (the default) and then switch to other console and do other stuff
> > > 
> > > I have fb 1024x768 and -vo mga .... mplayer shows up the movie in the center, which
> > > is something normal and desirable ...
> > > 
> > > However, from time to time you want to watch something and do something else in your
> > > console ...
> > >  
> > > So, is there any trick for that? without knowing the actual size of the movie, of course!
> > 
> > If it's no longer broken, -geometry should work. Try something like
> > -geometry -0+0. However, keep in mind that if you display fbcon
> > mplayer on top of your other work, scrolling may do funny things. :)
> > This can be avoided for the most part by setting vyres==yres with
> > fbset, but that will slow down your scrolling a good bit.
> > 
> > Of course you won't have this problem with mga_vid, but it doesn't
> > support -geometry right now. I guess you could restrict it to the
> > upper left corner of the screen with something like -screenw 320
> > -screenh 240 or whatever...but that's not quite as nice. I'd be happy
> > to commit a patch for geometry support in mga, but only if it doesn't
> > break other stuff! So far no one has bothered to work on it though,
> > and I don't really care that much to do it myself.
> > 
> > Rich
> 
> 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.

1000l to whoever put in that idiotic limitation. I think it happened
at the same time they made -vo fbdev clear the screen. One easy
workaround is to run mplayer from inside screen, but I'll fix this
nonsense sometime...

Rich