[MPlayer-users] strange xv fullscreen behaviour with nv driver

[Sascha Sommer]

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> I have to use the nv driver for my nvidia card on my laptop, because the 
> binary nvidia driver
> does not work with centrino processors.
> This nv driver support xv output, but i have to use ugly workarounds in 
> order to use hw scaling:
> 1. hw scaling works fine for windowed mplayer, when i resize the mplayer 
> window.
> 2. When i want to use xv hw scaling in fullscreen mode, i first have to 
> start some other application,
> which grabs the xv port (e.g. MPlayer with a dummy video), and start 
> MPlayer with the video i want to watch. Then also hw scaling works fine.
> xv hw scaling in fullscreen mode does not work, if MPlayer can grab the 
> xv port 61.
> 

Did you try -vo xvidix?

Sascha