[MPlayer-users] fb_dev: flickering output

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 22 Mar 2011, at 21:11, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Alexander Stein <alexander.stein <at> systec-electronic.com> writes:
> 
>> I tried rc4 and noticed a slight flicking in the output. Especially if i fill 
>> the framebuffer using cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0.
>> Using rc2 there is no such flickering. I tried to bisect the problem, but I 
>> have problem building mplayer.
> 
> svn co -r {2010-09-27} svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/mplayer/trunk mplayer
> cd mplayer
> svn up --ignore-externals -r {2010-09-27} libavutil/ libavformat/ libavcodec/
> libavcore/ libpostproc/ libdvdread4/ libdvdnav/
> ./configure && make
> make distclean
> svn up --ignore-externals -r {2009-12-31}
> svn up --ignore-externals -r {2009-12-31} libavutil/ libavformat/ libavcodec/
> libpostproc/ libdvdread4/ libdvdnav/
> ./configure && make

It should be possible to just run SVN up on libvo/vo_fbdev.c, the changes made to it should be fairly independent (and there should be really few, too).
However I don't see what flickering when using "cat" should have to do with MPlayer...