[MPlayer-users] LCD vs. CRT

[Jim Green]

I built mplayer from source under the stable Debian Linux distribution
(Sarge) on my Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop.  Using my laptop's LCD display, it
works.  But if I put my laptop in its docking station and use a CRT monitor,
I get audio only -- the video display is black.  I've tried this with both
mpeg and quicktime.  My video card is ATI Radeon 9000.  The output from
mplayer (reproduced below) is identical line for line with either display,
and doesn't seem to show any errors or problems that would cause the black
screen effect.  I've Googled and studied the documentation, but so far no
clue how to fix it.  Any help would be appreciated, thanks.



MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2


Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such device (it should be readable by the user.)
Playing developing_for_sakai_part_1.mov.
ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
--------------
MOV track #0: 2909 chunks, 0 samples
Audio bits: 16  chans: 1  rate: 22050
Audio extra header: len=48  fcc=0x77617665
MOV: Found unknown audio atom Fourcc: Qclp
--------------
MOV track #1: 2621 chunks, 3332 samples
Allocated 256 entries for palette
Using default QT colour palette
Image size: 768 x 576 (8 bpp)
Display size: 768 x 576
Fourcc: smc   Codec: 'Graphics'
--------------
MOV: longest streams: A: #0 (2909 samples)  V: #1 (3332 samples)
VIDEO:  [smc ]  768x576  8bpp  0.333 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [qtaudio] QuickTime Audio Decoder
QuickTime6.3 DLLs found
QuickTime.qts patched!!! old entry=0x6693c3e0
theQuickTimeDispatcher catched -> 0x6693c3e0
WARNING! Invalid Ptr handle!

### Searching for QuickTime plugins (*.qtx) at /usr/local/lib/codecs...
### FindNext: AvidQTAVUICodec.qtx
### FindNext: BeHereiVideo.qtx
### FindNext: QuickTimeEssentials.qtx
### FindNext: QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx
theQuickTimeDispatcher catched -> 0x6693c3e0
theQuickTimeDispatcher catched -> 0x6693c3e0
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 38.6 kbit/10.94% (ratio: 4823->44100)
Selected audio codec: [qclp] afm:qtaudio (QuickTime QCLP audio decoder)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffsmc] vfm:ffmpeg (Apple Graphics (SMC) codec)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 22050Hz/1ch/s16le -> 22050Hz/2ch/s16le...
AF_pre: 22050Hz/1ch/s16le
AO: [oss] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/1ch/s16le -> 22050Hz/2ch/s16le...
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 768 x 576 (preferred csp: BGR 8-bit)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Opening video filter: [palette]
VDec: using BGR 8-bit as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from BGRA to Planar YV12 using MMX2
VO: [xv] 768x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12