[xine-user] Re: Does Xine do plain FB now?

[csj <cs...@mi...>]

On 15 Apr 2002 20:11:23 -0300
Miguel Freitas <mi...@ce...> wrote:

> > Well, I got cvs and the new CelomaGold skin to compile. But still no
> > Linux fb. Interestingly, this is what I get as the video driver list:
> > 
> > > xine --help | grep -A3 -- -V
> >   -V, --video-driver <drv>     Select video driver by id. Available drivers: 
> >                                load_plugins: /usr/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_vo_out_aa.so has wrong visual type (2) or interface version (5)
> > load_plugins: /usr/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_vo_out_fb.so has wrong visual type (3) or interface version (5)
> > Xv SyncFB OpenGL XShm 
> 
> You might try calling xine or aaxine with "-V fb" to see if works. I'm
> not at home so i can't test it right now, but as far as i remember both 
> guis were able to use it.

It works! But...

The video shows up on all my X-less terminals, not just the terminal I
started it from, tty1. On tty7, my X display terminal, I get what looks
like garbled video and the xine GUI skin, which responds to the "Q"
command, etc. On tty1, I press Ctrl-C.

 I can't do anything else but watch the video. This is probably the
proper way to watch a video (give it your undivided attention). But it
would be nice if I could switch to other terminals, say, to write this
mail.

To be fair, mplayer and vlc behave in a similar way, perhaps even worse:
I can't seem to switch terminals when I'm in fb(dev) mode. On the other
hand, the plain smpeg plaympeg program allows me to switch terminals.
But plaympeg doesn't do DivX ;-)

But these are just niggles. Thanks for the X-freed plugin.