FW: [MPlayer-users] Re: LCD vs. CRT

[Jim Green]

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately, it didn't make any difference --
still getting no video on the CRT.

-----Original Message-----
From: mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu
[mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Frank Aurich
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 11:23 AM
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: [MPlayer-users] Re: LCD vs. CRT

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

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