If all else fails you can try -vo aa or -vo caca :-) mplayer -vo help lists all the available outputs, in the order they are tried by mplayer (the first few are generally chipset specific drivers).
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -vo controls the output method used. xv interfaces more directly to > the hardware, whereas x11 uses the whole x11 layer, and is slower. > You'll find you can't expand the video to full screen in x11, but you > could in xv (if it worked). > > I can recall this problem on an intel chipset, and it was fixed by > lines similar to the ones you tried. However, as i said that was an > intel (i810 driver) card. > > Basically the X system does not have enough memory to run the video in > xv mode. I am guessing this is a laptop, or you wouldn't be using a > crap video card like an sis! > > Do you know how much ram the video card has? If so check out how much X > detects > > grep -i memory /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > Does the video card steal system memory to work? if so try increasing > in the bios the amount allocated to the video card (this will > obviously be at the expense of system ram). > > Can't think of anything else at present, other than a deeper > understanding of your video chipset and the intricacies of X. You > could try reading man sis and man xorg.conf :-) > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes it does! Hoo-b****y-ray! What does this mean? >> >> Nick Rout wrote: >>> >>> It is IIRC an xv problem, does the video play in mplayer with -vo x11? >>> >>> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:34:08 +1200 >>>> Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> SubSection "Display" >>>>> Depth 1 >>>>> Modes "1024x768" >>>>> EndSubSection >>>>> >>>> >>>> Personally, I'd dump all of these, and let the driver sort itself out. I >>>> very much doubt it'll help, but it's less to work through. I think there >>>> are some specific modes... >>>> >>>> istr at fsome poing having to force a low limit on video ram on some of >>>> the sis graphics cards ( it's probably a lappie, but I don't know what word >>>> to use in place of 'card'! ). >>>> >>>> Just had a quick check on google, and apparently it's the 6326 chip that >>>> I'm remembering all these weirdities from. http://linux.die.net/man/4/sis >>>> might help >>>> >>>> Steve. >>>> -- >>>> Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> ======================================================================= >> This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended >> addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be >> the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or >> lost by reason of this transmission. >> If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our >> apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no >> other act on the email. >> Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been >> altered or corrupted during transmission. >> ======================================================================= >> >> >
