On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 07:18:08PM +0200, Giorgio wrote: > > The following simplified command-line reproduces the problem with the same mplayer output (up to details concerning bmovl which is not included here). It should execute as is on a Linux system: > > > > mplayer -quiet -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=10:w=2500:h=2000:y8 /dev/zero > > While waiting for a better answer, have you tried a different vo? Well, that essentially is the right way for this case. > mplayer -quiet -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=10:w=2500:h=2000:y8 > /dev/zero -vo gl -vo gl doesn't work for me with such resolutions, though gl2 should work always. > mplayer -quiet -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=10:w=2500:h=2000:y8 > /dev/zero -vo x11 That one however is rather slow and cannot even do scaling in hardware.