The Best mplayer video output mode

helmers

I was wondering what you guys use. I think the picture gets smoother with "-vo gl2", but I can't tell for sure. Also do you have any command-line swithces that might make it play smoother/faster or is a cool feature?

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Jan Henrik Helmers

Tuxisuau · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 2:01 pm Post subject:

I use xv. I don't know for sure, but I think xv is designed for that, for showing video, so it should be the fastest one.
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sputnik1969 · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:43 pm Post subject:

On my ATI Radeon 8500 with ATI-Driver 1.4.3 i use gl, xv isn't implementet (yet) and gl2 is much slower.
On NVidia-Cards (GForce 256 in my Multimedia-server) i prefer xv, gl didn't work in the past and i havn't tried it out in presence...

Radi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 108

on Nvidia cars 'gl2' should work very well.

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

I am using the xv as well for my TNT II running on "closed" nvidia drivers. It is most definately the most speedy way and also troublefree, with full screen.
It does however not scale well in the Y direction, when scaled up. Rather anoying, because the picture is NOT so smooth in fullscreen mode. When I open up a second mplayer while a first is running through xv, it will not user xv on port 63 but rather port 64 with which it uses a different technique. Scaling is perfect hen, but the picture "tears" when large movements are on the screen.

sdl : when I try fs, It goes black and stops responding

X11: the picture doesn't fill the screen in fs mode

gl2: program hangs copletely ehen trying fs mode.

Will the scaling issue in XV be fixed when I switch to a geforce?
Then that is an option.
If there were only a program like "zoomplayer" for linux. It is truly excellent for tv out operation. It is however a program for windows...

Mooses · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 128

I am using xv on my Geforce2Go with the NVidia drivers. Works very well. When I switch on TwinView with a TV (in 800x600 Mode, Laptop display at 1024x768) Fullscreen centers on the smaller resolution (the TV). Although mplayers devellopers don't seem to like NVidia, it works very, very well.

kybber · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 12:34 pm Post subject:

Mooses: Are you able to use NVTV with a twinview setup? Whenever I turn NVTV on (using twinview), I get a blank lcd and garbled TV. I too have the Gf2Go chip in my Latitude C810.

Mooses · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 128

Here is the interesting part of my xf86config:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Geforce2Go"
Driver "nvidia"
#VideoRam 16384
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Option "FlatPanel"

# Option "TwinView" "off"
Option "TwinView" "on"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "on"
Option "MetaModes" "800x600,1024x768;800x600,800x600"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVStandard" "Pal-G"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP, TV"

I have to enable / disable Twinview, because if i dont, KDE centers for the 800x600 resolution.
With this setup I can use the TV-out very nicely.

hope this helped.

Mooses

BTW: I am using a Toshiba 3000-100

kybber · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 7:03 am Post subject:

The only differences I can see between your setup and mine are: