[MPlayer-users] What -vo option should I use?

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:58:04PM +0100, Louise Hoffman wrote:
> >xvidix is generaly the best choice; with nvidia drivers you can
> >probably have gl and xv have as good alternatives
> 
> gl is much slower when I use that, and xv uses about the same amount
> of cpu as SDL.

How much is "much slower"? With my interpretation of "much" that means
you don't have the drivers properly installed.
glxinfo | grep direct
should show "direct rendering: Yes".

> When using xvidix I only get sound and this message:

You need to be root or use dhahelper or whatever it is called.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger