Re: Xine/Mplayer can't use xv

[Tom Chance <lists@tomchance.org.uk>]

On Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 15:35, Albert Dengg wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:59:19PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> ...
>
> > I'm using the nv unacelarated driver, and have some success with:
> >
> > mplayer -fs -vo xvidix nvidia_vid "$@"
> >
> > It's not too quick, but it's a heck of a lot quicker than default :)
> >
> > I have a feeling that I read somwhwere in the mplayer docs that the
> > above is the only thing that works on nvidia, even with the closed
> > source driver. I could be wrong...
>
> You are, at least partly:
> for me xv works, at least mostly, on my gf4ti4200 with the closed source
> driver (1.0.4496-2+1.0) on a 2.4.25 kernel....(i get green shadows at
> the bottom 3 milimeterts or so...)
> by the way, I use mplayer 1.0pre3 on this machine, if this matters...

I suppose I could try compiling a more recent version of mplayer myself. xv 
works beautifully for me on my laptop (running Gentoo, using the proprietary 
driver), so it's obviously a Debian issue.

Regards,
Tom