[MPlayer-users] Problems with Mplayer

[JD]

Turns out that even though the config file is setting vo to xv,
mplayer uses x11 driver.
In fact I tried all drivers listed by the command
mplayer -vo help, except x11, as the driver to use in the config file.
Mplayer seems to completely ignore the config file setting and uses x11 
driver (which works).

But if I invoke gnome-mplayer, then the setting in the config file seems 
to take effect.
Thus, with config file set to xv, mplayer ignores it, whereas 
gnome-mplayer extracts it and explicitly passes it as an argument to 
mplayer. This is similar to the behaviour of explicitly specifying -vo 
xv on the command line (i.e. no video is played).

I will have to build latest mplayer from source.

Cheers,

JD

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> JD wrote:
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>> Below is the output of gnome-mplpayer -v .
>> The error message is interesting:
>> ERROR: [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card 
>> available.
>> ID_AUDIO_ID=2
>> ERROR: [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
>>
>> and towards the bottom, it says:
>> Video: no video
>>
>> ~/.mplayer/config contains:
>> # Write your default config options here!
>>
>> [gnome-mplayer]
>> vo=xv
>> ao=alsa
>> vf=eq2
>>
>> Running
>> $ xvinfo
>> X-Video Extension version 2.2
>> screen #0
>>  no adaptors present
>>
>> and yet, mplayer can indeed play the videos via the xv driver,
>> but gnome-mplayer cannot! Weird!
>>
>> Is gnome-mplayer supposed to simply exec mplayer and pass it the 
>> arguments? If so, why the failure?
>>     
>
>
> I'm pretty sure that mplayer will not play the video using the xv output
>  since you xvinfo command returns no xvideo capabilities. Try
> gnome-mplayer with the x11 video output and it should work. If you still
>  think that mplayer uses xvideo. Please post a run of mplayer with the
> xv vo set and the -v option, I would like to see what it says.
>
> Kevin
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