[MPlayer-users] bug report

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sat Nov 12 23:21:48 CET 2005


lør, 12.11.2005 kl. 19.32 skrev kobaye:
> Hi.
> This is a bug report (or what i think is a bug) on MPlayer for Windows.
> I am running mplayer dev-CVS-050928 on Windows XP SP2. The program works 
> perfectly exept when it comes to handle dual screen display. When i try 
> to move the mplayer window from the main screen to the secondary screen, 
> the image turns all green. Sound still plays and the movie seems to be 
> playing as well, but i am not able to watch anything on the second 
> monitor. When i try to go fullscreen, mplayer only displays the image on 
> the main monitor and not on the second, even if the mplayer windows is 
> on the second. The -xinerama 1 option "is invalid", as it seems to be a 
> linux-only option.
> My graphics card is a radeon 9700 with dual output. Is there a 
> workaround for this problem, or is it a (un)known bug ?
> Thanks for any advice.

This is probably due to your video card only being able to handle video
overlay on its primary monitor. Switch which monitor is primary, or use
software blitting (?).

Kyrre




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