[MPlayer-users] Does mplayer -vo 3dfx work with voodoo2?

[Mike Carr]

gabucino at mplayerhq.hu wrote:

>Mike Carr wrote:
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>>I've been trying for a couple days to get mplayer -vo 3dfx to work
>>properly with my Voodoo2. It tries to initialize the video, flickers for
>>a second, does NOT show the 3dfx logo, and then bombs with a message
>>like the following:
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>It won't show the logo, because it doesn't use the 3D engine :)
>Anyway it is unmaintained for 2 years at least, so it won't work anyway.
>
? What else could you use an in-line 3d accelerator card for? The 
voodoo2 isn't a standalone card, it's a "companion card", it doesn't 
provide any 2d capabilities.

If you know that the feature doesn't work, then why list it as an 
option, and why list it amongst the "features" of mplayer?


>>marrilat.free.fr, my player-686 package is version 0.90-0.2, so I think
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>Those packages are UNSUPPORTED by us!!!!
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Duly noted.

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-Mike
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