[MPlayer-users] Re: LCD vs. CRT

[Frank Aurich]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Friday, 07 April 2006 at 19:57, Jim Green wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That's probably because the card has only one video overlay and it's
> assigned to LCD output. It's probably possible to reassign it to CRT.
> 
> As a workaround, try -vo gl if you have 3D acceleration enabled.
> 
> Regards,
> R.
> 
You may also try -adapter 2, so the overlay gets created on the CRT. I'm 
just guessing though, as I don't know how the docking station works.


Frank