Re: [tlug] mplayer full screen

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:45:06 +0900
"Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> On 16/03/2008, Attila Kinali <attila@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:14:20 +0900
> >  "Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > Your graphics driver is probably at fault.
> >
> > I doubt it. I think there is a deep missconfiguration
> >  or misscompilation of MPlayer there.
> 
> I've had this very problem when using a VESA driver on my laptop,
> which is why I mentioned it. Switching to the ATI driver fixed it.

This is actually a missconfiguration :-)
It is known that the vesa x11 driver (i assume you mean this
one, as MPlayer also has a vidix vesa driver) does not
support overlays and hardware scaling and thus does not
support Xvideo.
 
> Still, you may well be right, and your questions are good ones. I'd
> like to see the OP's xorg.conf in addition to answers to your
> questions, though.

Yes, actually there would be a lot more information needed
as it is described in bugreports.html, but hardly anyone
reads that anyways.

			Attila Kinali

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