[MPlayer-users] Play movies without any gap

[The Wanderer]

Rich Felker wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:16:40PM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> 
>> Hi The Wanderer!
>> 
>> On 2005.07.18 at 14:31:04 -0400, The Wanderer wrote next:
>> 
>>> ...*beta*? News to me. I've been using it for literally *years*,
>>> and I've never had any problems with it, so unless I've just
>>> slipped through the cracks between universes again...
>> 
>> It works only with several VOs. However, it doesn't work with
>> xvidix (the best vo for radeon card owners), and doesn't work with
>> x11. It generally works, but has problems with video aspect ratio
>> for some other vo, like gl and gl2. So basically, it's very buggy
>> and almost unusable..
> 
> x11, gl, and gl2 are all broken vo's that no one should be using.
> They're slow and very low quality. If xvidix is broken with
> -fixed-vo, it should be fixed asap. Or just use cvidix..

FWIW, neither xvidix nor cvidix works for me; I once got them to work,
briefly, by installing dhahelper, but they stopped working again shortly
thereafter (and reinstalling it didn't help). I don't remember exactly
how they failed before, but I just tested xvidix both as root and as a
normal user; as root it displays a solid-green window (presumably the
colorkey), as a normal user it spits out the usual flood of "Error
occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted" errors and fails to
initialize. cvidix as root produces no apparent errors, but also no
video; cvidix as a normal user gives the same errors as xvidix.

I get perfectly acceptable video output with -vo xv, but from what I
hear not everyone necessarily will - and I wouldn't be in the least
surprised if many other people had the same difficulties with VIDIX that
I do. (Everyone else in my household certainly did, last I checked.)

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