On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Michael wrote: > Hmm, without the -fixed-vo option I haven't had any garbled video playback > now for several hours. Maybe that's the cause. > > So, I have nearly everything running. Great! > > The only think I am still fighting with is the mplayer options. I want to > position the video playback at 100,50 on a 800x600 screen. The video > resolution should be 640x480. If the video is of a different size, I would > like to resize it while keeping the original aspect ratio. Furthermore, if > the resulting video is smaller than 640x480 it would be great if black > borders would be added automatically. > > I've tried nearly a hundred combinations of options. None delivered this. > The one that came closest, was -screenw 640 -screenh 480 -fs . However, in > this case -geometry 100:50 does no longer work, so the video is always on > the topleft side. > > More fancy stuff such as -geometry 100:50 -vf dsize=640:480:0,expand=640x480 > deliver not the expected result (mostly bigger video screens). > > Does anybody know, what options would be best to attain the result I want? Have you tryed -geometry 100:50 -xy 640 ? Giacomo > > Thanks again and cheers from Switzerland > > Michael > > Michael wrote: > > > Thanks, I've got everything working now. > > > > Python-SDL fortunately also works with X11. :-) > > > > The only problem is that the nsc driver seems to be quite a bit buggy > > still. I infrequently get garbled video playback :-( > > > > The screen then shows many several small copies of the video, all of them > > just in two colors (red and green). > > > > So far I only see these problems when I am not fullscreen. But I need more > > test to find out where these come from. > > > > Is the driver still actively maintained? Anybody knows who the developer > > is? > > > > Thanks and best regards from Switzerland > > > > Michael > > > > Reimar Döffinger wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:01:48PM +0200, Michael wrote: > >>> Now I just need to find some tutorials on how to access the X11 screen > >>> from python (as Mplayer shall only use about 80% of the screen, the rest > >>> shall be a scrolling text display). > >> > >> May I recommend reading man mplayer, particularly the -geometry part? > >> > >>> I also want to get rid of the xterm. Need to find out what I need it for > >>> at all. I see that I cannot simply start mplayer from xinit. It seems to > >>> need xterm. > >> > >> No it doesn't. You _might_ need to use -noconsolecontrols and/or > >> redirect stdin/stdout. > > > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users -- _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
