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

[Henry Garcia]

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


My bad.  I guess that what dhahelper does. But I usually can't get xvidix to
work. It keeps turning to a green screen and all I get is  sound. It works
once in a great while, if I try it on a fresh reboot.



On 3/24/07, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
wrote:
>
> 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
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