Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:45:23AM +0200, Francois Kritzinger wrote:
> > Software
> > --------
> > FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE
> > XFree86 3.6
> 
> old
> 
> > avifile-0.60.20010429_1/
> 
> this is even older :)
> 
> > In Windows these same files play perfectly even in full screen.
> 
> Well I'm not sure how well is supported Xv extension on FreeBSD -
> as far as I know  XVideo extension for GeForce cards works only
> with NVidia drivers and they are released only for Windows & Linux
> and I'm not sure if you could simply use this libraries in FreeBSD.

That really sucks.

> 
> > ----------------
> > Nvidia do not supply FreeBSD drivers for the GeForce - could this be the
> > cause?
> 
> probably yes
> 
> > Also, in FreeBSD there is a kernel option which enables VESA (and my
> > kernel doesn't have it enabled). Would this help?
> 
> you would need really fast computer to be able to use scaled X11 video
> 
> so maybe you should install small linux partion (like 400MB with
> just packages needed to run XFree and view your movies in this way)
> 
> also you may try mplayer

Why would things be different with mplayer?



Thanks for the help.

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