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pazioman

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Registered: 2008-04-27

Posts: 21

Mplayer Video Output module?

Hi.
I've been using Mplayer (via SMplayer) to play videos for a year and it works perfectly.
Since I got a laptop with a GeForce Go 7300 I always installed the latest proprietary NVIDIA drivers, so I thought that gl2 was the best video output module for me.
Today I was searching the Mplayer docs for encoding options and I found this:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/opengl.html

Player supports displaying movies using OpenGL, but if your platform/driver supports xv as should be the case on a PC with Linux, use xv instead, OpenGL performance is considerably worse. If you have an X11 implementation without xv support, OpenGL is a viable alternative.

So it seems that XV is the best option?
Do you know anything about this? What's the best?

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Mplayer Video Output module?

xv is indeed the best -vo. Only use gl if you are having problems with xv, eg if you are running xcompmgr.

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Mplayer Video Output module?

+1 for xv. With nVidia, I've found that xv is an amazing video driver.