[MPlayer-users] Problems with Mplayer

[JD]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 08 December 2008 at 04:35, JD wrote:
>   
>> 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).
>>     
>
> That's because you have two sections (profiles) of settings in your config
> file, one [default] and one [gnome-mplayer]. You're changing the setting
> in the latter profile, hence only gnome-mplayer uses it. It'd work with
> regular mplayer too, if you used -profile gnome-mplayer on the command line.
>
> And please stop top-replying.
>
> Regards,
> R.
>
>   


I see - OK Thanks!
I will try to build the latest release of mplayer.
I do not know if it has any performance improvements over my current 
version.

Thanx to all for the feedbacks.

Cheers,

JD