[MPlayer-users] xv and sdl do not work in high resolution

[Eduardo M Kalinowski]

> > Y resolution. But what does that "maximum XvImage size" mean? Is this
> > related to the screen resolution or to the actual size of the window
> > displaying the video?
>
> Neither, it is the maximum size of the image MPlayer can send to the
> graphics card.
> This normally is whatever the video is encoded it.
> If your PC is really fast you might be able to work around the
> limitation by inserting -vf scale to scale it down to a smaller size
> that the card can handle.

Well, this I haven't understood. If I have a video that's, say,
400x300 pixels, and want to display it in windowed mode, the window
will be 400x300 pixels, so there shouldn't be a problem with a maximum
size of 1920 x 1080, whatever the actual screen resolution is. (It
wouldn't work in fullscreen mode, though). Is that how it works?

Anyway, I guess the best solution is lowering the resolution.