mplayer doesn't like me again
Michael Hennebry
hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Wed Feb 2 02:43:28 UTC 2011
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 02/01/2011 01:40 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> Arrrg.
>> I remembered that I didn't have nvidia,
>> but I remembered the wrong name.
>> I'm on my third video card.
>> The first was a radeon.
>> After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with
>> an nvidia card because it had AGP and I could find it.
>> Having cooked or otherwise damaged that one,
>> I replaced it with a VisionTek Radeon HD 3650.
>> Again was the AGP card I could find.
>> I suspect that a Radeon wouldn't play well with a *nvidia.so .
>>> What is in your /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file? It should show the vo
>>> options it will try and use. Mine uses:
>>> vo=xv,xvidix,
>From mplayer -vo help:
vdpau VDPAU with X11
xv X11/Xv
gl_nosw OpenGL no software rendering
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
gl OpenGL
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
fbdev Framebuffer Device
fbdev2 Framebuffer Device
matrixview MatrixView (OpenGL)
aa AAlib
caca libcaca
dxr3 DXR3/H+ video out
v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
xvmc XVideo Motion Compensation
mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
gif89a animated GIF output
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame
>From the command line I tried
xv: DRI failure, pixelation
gl_nosw: pixelation, but no DRI failure message
dga: mess
fbdev: cannot open /dev/fb, no video
xvidix: pci errors, no video
x11: DRI failure, pixelation
dga: mess:
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [dga] 640x480 => 640x480 BGRA
vo_dga: DGA 2.0 available :-) Can switch resolution AND depth!
vo_dga: Selected hardware mode 640 x 480 @ 59 Hz @ depth 24, bitspp
32.
vo_dga: Video parameters by codec: 640 x 480, depth 24, bitspp 32.
vo_dga: Framebuffer mapping failed!!!
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
Too many buffered pts
>> I'm at work, so I don't know for sure,
>> Somewhere I think a saw a statement that mplayer would use a built-in list.
>> The list was not specified.
>
> Without specifying a list (and after exhausting the modes in the list if
> it ends with a ","), mplayer will go though all the modes in its own
> order. Seem like vpdau is higher up on the list than the mode you need,
> so it tries it before what you need. You might want to determine what
> the video mode you need is and add it to your system's mplayer.conf file
> so it finds it sooner.
In light of the above, I'm not sure I have a useable mode.
Considering that I have a rather high end video card,
'twould be nice if I did.
I really hate the poke-it-and-see-what-it-does method.
--
Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
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