On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 +0000 Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on > my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi > really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which > may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in > the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic > video driver rather than Nvidia's own. It happens with all three > programs whereas xine and ogle have always run very smoothly on my old > 500 MHz Pentium III with the Voodoo 3 2000 card and Mandrake 8.1. > > Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for > anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, > a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that > stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a > problem. Yes, it works here under LM 9.0, and worked before with 8.2, 8.0 and even before that if I can remember correctly. I don't personally se it though, but my girlfriend does... Maybe the difference is that I build it myself, instead of installing pre-compiled binaries which aren't suited to my system. There are long and large warnings all over mplayer about binaries, and although they do have a link now to some rpm's now, they still advise everyone to compile it themselves. I would suggest this too. MPlayer is just too system-sensitive, but in a good way as it provides a great, stable, fast running media player;-) I have a P3 800mh/z, but even on my P1 233mh/s I was sort-of able to watch a DivX file ... without too my audio delay and stuttering frames. Yeah it wasn't what I call a success, but it ran well still. > Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. I don't think this is your problem. If you start from a console with `gmplayer` .. read the warnings if there are any, it may just help you. Do you have your codecs installed? If the binary of yours built using libavcodec? libavcodec provides a great decoder / encoder for many formats, much faster than the win32 codecs. Just some ideas, Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ "I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." - George H. W. Bush
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