[ATrpms-devel] Re: mplayer vidix output fails on nvidia and sis cards

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 24 February 2005 03:08, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:04:52PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Feb 23, 2005, at 22:02, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > >On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:01:14PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > >>The default to try vidix output w/mplayer crashes mplayer when using
> > >>an nvidia
> > >>card with the nvidia driver, as well as sis cards using the
> > >>Winischoffer sis
> > >>driver.
> > >
> > >Are you running mplayer as root?
> >
> > Nope. Should I be?
>
> No, but I thought vidix only works if you have root permissions.

Aha. I'd never tried running as root. That does indeed work as root. The 
problem is that the default is vidix for all users, not just root, and 
instead of falling back to xv, mplayer just dies, unless you give an -vo xv 
flag or set up per-user config files for mplayer. So perhaps 
create /root/.mplayer/config with a default video output method of vidix, but 
I don't think setting it in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf is a good thing.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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