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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Media players cannot use OpenGL output

Look at this screenshot of MPlayer:

There's no option for output via OpenGL. The same is the case with VLC - set it to use GL output, and it will crash, saying it was unable to open the display or somesuch. Can someone tell me what, exactly, is wrong with my system?

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: Media players cannot use OpenGL output

you will have to build the package yourself w/ abs

Gvalandor

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Registered: 2005-09-29

Posts: 9

Re: Media players cannot use OpenGL output

The current PKGBUILD already seems to have --enable-gl though...

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Media players cannot use OpenGL output

All the media players have GL output enabled at compile time if possible, it just doesn't work for any of them.

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Media players cannot use OpenGL output

xv = on
gl = on

or something, which is a setting in the xorg.conf under nvidia or ati header and when you have the one enabled the other output doesn't work.

this has been for a long time, but maybe it's not so anymore. I'm sorry i can't remember the specifics but why should i? knowing the xorg.conf from my memory is not one of my pasttimes

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Media players cannot use OpenGL output

I am not using nVIdia or ATI. I have garbagy Unichrome onboard graphics.

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: Media players cannot use OpenGL output

unichrome hmm i have to remember to not ever find out what that is Regardless, maybe they have setting like that aswell.. Maybe you ifnd it in man xorg.conf

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KISS = "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Albert Einstein

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Media players cannot use OpenGL output

It shouldn't be a problem... If I am able to use OpenGL, and MPlayer and other media players are compiled with GL support, then they should be able to use OpenGL.