In message <20090106214437.ga2...@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> on Tue, 6 Jan
2009 23:44:37 +0200, "Nadav Har'El" <n...@math.technion.ac.il> said:
nyh> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009, Richard Levitte wrote about "Re: [ctwm] Fullscreen
mplayer on ctwm":
nyh> > I've standardised it with a ~/.mplayer/config that looks like this:
nyh> >
nyh> > vo=sdl
nyh> > fs=yes
nyh> > monitoraspect=1.6
nyh> >
nyh> > The monitoraspect is because my laptop has a wide screen
nyh>
nyh> I will try to answer the rest of your questions tomorrow, and try further
nyh> tests, but in the meantime I just want to point out that the fullscreen
nyh> problem that I mentioned happens only if you use vo=xv, not with vo=sdl.
nyh> sdl apparently (but I am not sure - I didn't look at the code) uses its own
nyh> mechanism for going full screen, and this mechanism does indeed work, like
nyh> you saw. But with vo=xv, mplayer needs to deal with going full-screen on
its
nyh> own.
nyh>
nyh> The "xv" (XVideo) mode is the most efficient one to use if you have one of
nyh> the "accelerator" cards out there (e.g., any NVidia card) because all the
nyh> video scaling is done in the graphics hardware, not through the X-Windows
nyh> software; Thanks to the XVideo extension, I can view a full-screen video
with
nyh> just a few percent (!) of the CPU being utilized. I believe that "xv" is
nyh> also the default mode for mplayer.
nyh>
nyh> So can you try again with "-vo xv"?
I just did and it worked perfectly. Here's what it says:
: ; mplayer -vo xv Cisum/sorted/Within\
Temptation/Videos/WithinTemptation-WhatHaveYouDone.flv
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26940
CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-30 (Family: 15, Model: 36,
Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
This codecs.conf is too old and incompatible with this MPlayer release! at line
6
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing Cisum/sorted/Within
Temptation/Videos/WithinTemptation-WhatHaveYouDone.flv.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [VP6F] 480x360 0bpp 30.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffvp6f] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg VP6 Flash decoder)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 480 x 360 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 480x360 => 480x360 Planar YV12 [fs]
[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.0.339 ct: 0.000 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0
A: 15.0 V: 15.0 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.007 0/ 0 27% 8% 2.9% 11 0
Exiting... (Quit)
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