[MPlayer-users] xv overlay dies with nVidia card

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:18:51PM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> >  mplayer -vo xv:port=178 ...
> > Then I get video output!
> 
> Well, it looks like it's a bug with mplayer not releasing the xv overlay
> properly, because now it's stopped working with port=178.  Luckily
> there's a third alternative with port=179, but it would seem that it's
> only a matter of time before that stops working as well...

Only the primary port is an overlay. The others are fakes that will
tear.

Rich