mplayer starts second video window...

H-Dragon · Guru Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 547

mplayer starts a second window showing the video i selected... plays fine.. but i cant intervene.... skip, pause... or anything... you know?
why doesnt it start in the window that is allready open...
why creating a new one saying:
.:Mplayer : F=Fullscreen /windowed :C = cycle screen res...
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sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

yes, i notice this too, but im a xiner, so it doesnt bother me. :-)

can you try to put fs=yes in your .mplayer/config to see if that helps?
i remember i didnt get the double window when mplayer started with fullscreenmode (anoying!). i havnt re emerged mplayer yet or else i would try it.

TomorrowPlusX · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 8:11 pm Post subject: Same problem here

I've noticed this as well. It's got to be an actual problem, because on my system at least, if I bring the running window up, hit "f" for fullscreen, it all locks up, and I have to ctrl-alt-escape and kill mplayer. My observation: the mplayer gui is so damaged anyway, I just run it from command line. I also made a menu entry for KDE called "play dvd" which just calls "mplayer -dvd 1"

You can use the keyboard to control mplayer without a gui, anyway.

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

What are you using for mplayer's video output :?:

Try chaning to another and see if it persists.

Usually this will appear when using sdl as output.
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TomorrowPlusX · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 3:21 am Post subject: Yes, using SDL

Well that makes sense. Unfortunately, SDL is my only option for MPlayer, as I have a Crappy Videocard (tm).

Oh well.

petu · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 2:17 pm Post subject: mplayer and nvidia

I have noticed that mplayer doesn't work well in my computer which uses Geforce4 but works great in my brother's machine which uses ati radeon 7000. Anybody else having similar experiences?

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

I'm using it with GeForce2 MX, and it's doing fine.
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sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

hey mksoft,
ive got a geforce2 also... im having the two window syndrome.
It used to work fine not too long ago.
what version of mplayer are you using?

0.90_pre8-r1 here.

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

petu · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 4:37 pm Post subject:

I solved mplayer(geforce) double screen problem by choosing preferences and disabling dri. But mplayer is still VERY unstable. for example everytime I quit I get the following errors:

helmers · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 4:45 pm Post subject:

I'd like to know what you mean about unstable. With me it is solid as a rock, and the only time I'm having problems is when I'm playing .rm or .mov files. And I know it sometimes crashes when I exit it, but why should one care about that?

After some testing, I've found that the -vo gl2 switch gives the most smooth output possible, -vo xv is very fast, but less smooth. SDL is out of the question, I'd rather use VESA. And I know a many people with different GeForce variants, all their cards are working perfectly with XVideo.

Dunno how the MGA-output is, but it is probably the same as -vo xv? :?:

And if you are having problems with not being able to seek, perhaps you could have it rebuild the index at runtime? (check the manpages)

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petu · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 5:23 pm Post subject:

helmers · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 5:59 pm Post subject:

Well, have you tried with less aggressive compiler flags? For instance dropping the -fomit-frame-pointer flag and going down to march=i686 -Os?

I've had very few problems running it on my system, an AthlonXP with -O9 :wink:

-fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mmmx -msse -m3dnow.

And I've compiled my whole gentoo system like that, have downloaded & compiled 3GB and have had NO problems except for the dev. GIMP version.

(Which of course makes me a very happy Gentoo user)

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checkyoulater · n00b Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 30 Location: Toronto

Something I have noticed with Mplayer is that it tends to stay in memory, even when you have closed the video window. When you emerge mplayer, it automatically adds a menu item in the Gnome menu. This item runs gmplayer, which is the gui version, I think.

Upon viewing and closing 5 different videos from the Gnome menu, I notice that
ps -aux | grep mplayer

will show 5 instances of mplayer running.

When I run the same 5 clips from the command line by typing
mplayer clip1.avi

I don't get the same problem.

My solution? Change the file association to run mplayer, and not gmplayer.

petu · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 7:41 pm Post subject:

helmers · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 8:13 pm Post subject:

I'm glad you're getting along with Xine. :wink:

And it didn't add it to the GNOME menu for me, but I've got it set up in Nautilus, and it don't launch the GUI, just the video window in fullscreen. I've never had any problems with it. Perhaps I'm just a darn lucky guy :lol: