Re: [Freevo-users] mplayer and fullscreen

[Duncan W. <du...@fr...>]

Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Partha Bagchi wrote:
>   
>> Can you delete all references to -vo in Freevo and and try again? I
>> found that, that solved it for me.
>>     
>
> I found another way round this
> as I only had one reference to -vo in freevo, and it didn't apply to movies
>
> I made some changes in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
> # Start in fullscreen mode by default.
> fs=yes
> # Enable software scaling (powerful CPU needed) for video output
> # drivers that do not support hardware scaling.
> zoom=yes
>
> i have gone from an nvidia card (which did hardware scaling) to an intel 
> onboard chip.
> I have put in a big cpu, so I can afford software scaling
> the intel cpu doesn't have an xv driver.
> that's how the change occurred with the new video.
>   

What is the command that freevo is executing? There are two ways to find 
out either:
DEBUG_CHILDAPP=1
or
ps -efwww | grep mplayer

The first option will log the command that freevo has executed in the 
main-X.log and write two mplayer-stdXXX-X.log files with the output from 
mplayer.

Look at the output of dmesg you should see something like: agpgart: 
Detected an Intel 915G Chipset. If you are using an Intel motherboard it 
will more than likely have an Intel graphics chip and if does then you 
should be able to use xv with the i810 driver. xv is way better than x11 
even on a fast CPU.

The more you push the CPU the hotter it gets and the harder the fans 
have to work to cool it and so the machine is noisier and use more power.

HTH
Duncan