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pinr

Member

Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 11

Mplayer Vesa Driver

Hi I'm just trying out Arch linux on my Laptop after 4 years of using Gentoo and I must say I'm pretty impressed so far.  However, I have a problem which is critical to me.  I need to use mplayer with the vesa (console driver)  so I can get TV output.  In Gentoo mplayer comes with the vesa driver however after installing mplayer in Arch the vesa driver is not listed in
mplayer -vo help
where is it?  Was it left out of the mplayer package in compliation? Thanks

byte

Member

From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Mplayer Vesa Driver

Current Mplayer PKGBUILD

If you want to adapt your build to your needs (Gentoo feeling, eh? please have a look at the Wiki.

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Mplayer Vesa Driver

You could also submit a feature request on the bug tracker. Maybe the dev will agree to include it in the next  mplayer package.

_adam_

Member

From: Dora, Alabama

Registered: 2006-05-18

Posts: 94

Re: Mplayer Vesa Driver

have you tried installing xf86-video-fbdev and then "mplayer -vo fbdev filename"? that works on tv-out for me.