[MPlayer-users] Re: bug report

kobaye kobaye at noos.fr
Tue Nov 15 18:37:29 CET 2005


Frank Aurich wrote:
> Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
>> 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
>
> You can use -adapter 1 (or -adapter 2) to choose on which monitor it 
> should be displayed.
>
> The downside of this is you cannot move the window to your other 
> monitor while a movie is playing. Haven't found a way to do that yet
> __
-adapter 2 works well. thanks a lot.




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