Still problems with mplayer
 

I recently setup my X to work well with the newer version of the ATI driver for my Radeon 3650(thanks adam and dolphin!), however no matter what I do, I can't get mplayer to scale to fullscreen. Something that xine has no trouble with.

I have tried the x11, sdl, xover, gl, and gl2 outputs which all make no difference. Am I missing an output, or is something not working as it should? In particular, why is xine fine, while mplayer stumbles?

As an unrelated question, would anyone know if it is possible to set mplayer to skip to a next file in a directory? From what I could tell, it does not seem to have this functionality built in.

You should be using the xv output.

I get the same issue with mplayer not doing full-screen properly even with the xv output.

Show the output of 'xvinfo' and 'mplayer -vo xv /path/to/file.avi'

Adam

Have you tried it with the -zoom option? E.g.: mplayer -zoom file.avi

For some reason xv isn't working properly. The output of xvinfo is:

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present

The card is a HD3650. On another machine with a HD3200 that also runs Slackware 13 (both 32 bit) xv is working properly and mplayer works as expected without any extra configuration.

Well that's the source of your problem, then. What drivers are you using on this machine, the open source ones or the proprietary ones?

EDIT: Perhaps we should continue this on another thread, rather than taking over Josh000's thread...

I am using the open source drivers.

Are you using at least a 2.6.30.* kernel? And this is the last post I'll make on here that isn't in response to Josh000's original problem. If you want to continue this, we should do so on another thread.

Adam

I also have the 3650 card, so that could be interesting.

When I do mplayer -vo help I don't have xv as an option. I have attached the output of xvinfo as xvinfo.txt

Thanks for your help.

Yeah, Josh, you're drivers are fine (compared to hemp4fuel)... You could use the -zoom option for mplayer, but that will use the CPU to scale. Did you build mplayer yourself, or did you use a prebuilt package? The package that comes with Slackware 13.0 definitely supports xv.

Adam

Hi Adam,

I compiled mplayer myself, as I didn't want to have samba installed just to use it.

I grabbed the slackbuild from slackbuilds.org, which I would have thought would include xv support.

I will have a go at recomplining it and explicitly enabling xv.

Do you know if there is a way to make xv the default with mplayer, or if there is perhaps any other reason I would not have xv support?

Sure, you don't have Xv support, because you insisted (quite stupidly, IMO) on removing Xorg related packages, and one of those most include Xv prototypes or headers.

Till you actually reinstall all those Xorg packages, I'm not going to respond to any more of your posts asking for help fixing your broken system.

Adam

Just because it is not the full install, does not mean it is a broken system.

I have gotten quite a lot out of learning which packages I actually need, and which I don't for compiling applications and having a useable X environment, and will continue to learn with enabling xv support in mplayer.

Anyway, thankyou for your help so far.

Would you have any idea about the other functionality I mentioned, which is not related to the lack of xv support or missing x/ packages?