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f0nd004u

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 16

VLC will use Xv, but mplayer will not.

I'm using the xf86-radeonhd-git driver, and the 3d drm module). I can tell VLC to use Xvideo without any issues at all, but mplayer refuses to accept that xv is indeed enabled on my system:

Playing /home/josh/video/the_boondocks/s01/s01e03.avi.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [DIV3]  640x368  24bpp  25.000 fps  1404.8 kbps (171.5 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: Lavf50.6.0
[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 96.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio: 12000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...

Is there any way I can force mplayer to use Xv even when it thinks I can't use it? I have a desire to use mplayer because I use my phone's ssh client as a remote for it. Any suggestions would be useful.

Last edited by f0nd004u (2009-10-08 15:51:25)