On 18-12-2011 14:15, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 18-12-2011 04:10, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: >> When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime) >> >> MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team >> 162 audio & 361 video codecs > > Can you give mplayer (just mplayer, not mplayer2) a try? I've had > problems with mplayer2 before, not with video playback but with > subtitles. I'm not familiar with tvtime so I can't provide any comments > about it. > > As for mplayer try using a different video out driver, use > 'mplayer -vo driver video_file' > > You can get a list of drivers with 'mplayer -vo help'. Some that may be > worth trying are: xv (most probably the one mplayer auto selects), x11, > sdl, gl, gl2, gl_nosw. Some of these might not have any form of > acceleration so they may be slow or cpu intensive but will do for > testing as you may be hitting some bug in the drivers. > > Also try with vlc and check if the same happens, I think vlc will also > try to use xv and if the problem is the same it might help to determine > what the problem is. > > Phone calls and lunch got in the way of writing a reply and this was already suggested and tried, sorry for the noise as this as nothing to add. As for tv time, if it uses mplayer as a backend then it might read ~/.mplayer/config. If it does then you can set the video out driver in the config file with a line: vo=driver -- Mauro Santos
