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darweth

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From: Brooklyn, NY

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 68

Full screen video choppy/messy/laggy/etc...

Hiya.

I have a pretty crappy NVIDIA card (Geforce 4MX) and have lots of trouble with videos fullscreen on XV video setting.  It does not matter whether it is MPlayer, SMPlayer, VLC, etc...

The videos all play fine windowed.  No hitches, no lines, no stutters... but all struggle when I click that mighty F button to bust it up.  My computer is not great specs (P4 2.8, 512 ram, etc)... but I did not notice any of these video problems over on Windows.  Particularly not with divx3 and regular xvid crap, like I am now...

Does this have to do with the Linux Nvidia 96xx drivers?  Are they crappy?  I know they have full-screen issues for games and other apps.  Does the same hold true for video? 

It is not a huge problem.  I can just watch a video in a BIG window fine... but curious about why full-screen sux.  Thanks.

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: Full screen video choppy/messy/laggy/etc...

I have the same card and have no trouble with full-screen video. Are you sure you're using the official NVIDIA driver, not the nv one that comes with X?

darweth

Member

From: Brooklyn, NY

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 68

Re: Full screen video choppy/messy/laggy/etc...

indeed

nvidia-96xx 1.0.9639-1
nvidia-96xx-utils 1.0.9639-1

Beryl and all that jazz works.

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: Full screen video choppy/messy/laggy/etc...

Try running mplayer with another video driver, like this (for OpenGL):

mplayer -vo gl video.avi

darweth

Member

From: Brooklyn, NY

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 68

Re: Full screen video choppy/messy/laggy/etc...

well, gl works but stutters in an entirely different manner.  

i have done more research into xv and video stuttering.  xvid actually messes up pretty rarely.  It seems it is the divx encoded videos that are mainly problematic in fullscreen.  perhaps the decoders/codecs whatever for divx are not as sharp. i know xvid is the standard these days, but i have some old divx lying around.  oh well... i can settle for watching those windowed i supposed.

adewolf

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Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 8

Re: Full screen video choppy/messy/laggy/etc...

Maybe this would help:
http://www.epron.com.br/ingles/viewtopic.php?t=1207

Alex