Problems with mplayer and composite windows [SOLVED]

[WakkaDojo]

I have xfce-4.4 with the xfce-composite enabled. When i have composite windows turned off, the -vo xv option works fine with mplayer. However, when composite is turned on, mplayer doesn't display my movie but rather just the windows behind the mplayer window, and when i drag it around or make it fullscreen, mplayer goes black. However, when I use -vo gl2 everything is fine. Why isn't -vo xv working? Also, I know -vo xv is a very fast output, is -vo gl2 comparable? If not, which output can I try that will give me the same performance as xv?

Check out some mplayer outputs:

For -vo xv:

[ltboy]

This has been talked about and talked about all over the internet including here. If you are using composite then your desktop is being rendered in opengl which trumps xv, basically xv is trying to overwrite a specific color on your screen with the video and the composite extension is changing that color. Sooo, essentially, if you are using composite in xorg then the only video playback extension that will work and still give decent performance is opengl commonly referred to by video players as gl or gl2
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[WakkaDojo]

Thanks, just what I was looking for!