mplayer + vesa

Mimamau · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 5:47 pm Post subject: mplayer + vesa

i've just reinstalled my little movie + mp3 box. before i allways used mplayer with -vo vesa and it worked great with tvout. now i get this:

Mimamau · Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 4:52 pm Post subject:

i found out, when running with -v i get more information:

joeyrutledge · n00b Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 15 Location: here

not sure if vesa uses fb or not but you might want to set the perms so regular users can use the framebuffer devices.

ls -al /dev/fb/*

you should be able to set the perms in /etc/devfsd.conf

you can do it while the system is up by
chmod 666 /dev/fb/*
as root

Mimamau · Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 1:51 pm Post subject:

thx, but this doesn't help, still the same prob. with -vo fbdev or directfb it works, but it is very slow.

Lars · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject:

If you have a well formed gfx card for mplayer (ati, mga) than try -vo vesa:vidix or -vo fbdev:vidix. Works very well for me ;-)

(ATI r128)

My K6-III 450MHz shows 720x400 video with 25fps (PAL) with no framedrops and full screen on a 800x600 fbdev screen. For more about vidix, RTFM.

vesa and fbdev are only software decoder, they are very slow.

Lars