On 06/10/10 12:19, Oliver Seitz wrote: >> When mplayer runs I don't know how to find out what vo it chose. For >> example, when I've lost keyboard control I have to shut down from another >> machine and I'm left with a corrupted screen which provides no >> information. > > How about > > mplayer movie.avi>mplayer.log Here is the output for three separate invocations of mplayer. The first is from the old mplayer-1.0pre8 version: 8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8 pre8mplayer /Sample.avi: MPlayer 1.0pre8-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5400 @ 2.70GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 10) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 Playing /Sample.avi. AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [XVID] 624x352 24bpp 23.976 fps 895.2 kbps (109.3 kbyte/s) Clip info: Software: transcode-1.0.6 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== [VO_SDL] Using driver: svgalib. vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()! ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 624 x 352 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.77:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [sdl] 624x352 => 624x352 Planar YV12 A: 3.9 V: 3.9 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.007 94/ 94 7% 18% 0.4% 1 0 Exiting... (Quit) 8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8 The next invocation is for the current version of mplayer called without arguments as was the previous call: snapshotmplayer /Sample.avi: MPlayer SVN-r31332-snapshot-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Playing /Sample.avi. AVI file format detected. [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0 [aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1 VIDEO: [XVID] 624x352 24bpp 23.976 fps 895.2 kbps (109.3 kbyte/s) Clip info: Software: transcode-1.0.6 [VO_SDL] Using driver: svgalib. vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()! ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Movie-Aspect is 1.77:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [sdl] 624x352 => 624x352 Planar YV12 A: 0.3 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.214 ct: 0.000 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 ^[[J^MA: 0.3 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.182 ct: -0.004 3/ 3 ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0 ^[[J^MA: 0.3 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.$ MPlayer interrupted by signal 15 in module: sleep_timer A: 8.6 V: 8.4 A-V: 0.177 ct: -0.035 202/202 4% 18% 0.3% 3 0 ^[[J Exiting... (Quit) I had to kill the program from a different machine. 8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8 Finally this is the current version where I directly call the svga driver. Whereas SDL was able to fill the screen using svgalib, this call does not. snapshotmplayer -vo svga /Sample.avi: MPlayer SVN-r31332-snapshot-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Playing /Sample.avi. AVI file format detected. [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0 [aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1 VIDEO: [XVID] 624x352 24bpp 23.976 fps 895.2 kbps (109.3 kbyte/s) Clip info: Software: transcode-1.0.6 Using VESA driver, 14336KB. VBE3 svgalib 1.9.25 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] Movie-Aspect is 1.77:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. [swscaler @ 0x89dae00]using unscaled yuv420p -> bgra special converter VO: [svga] 624x352 => 624x352 BGRA [VO_SVGA] Vid_mode: 34, 640x480 32bpp. [VO_SVGA] Video mode is linear and memcpy could be used for image transfer. [VO_SVGA] Video mode has 2 page(s). [VO_SVGA] Centering image. Starting at (0,64) A: 0.3 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.297 ct: 0.000 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 ^[[J^MA: 0.3 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.261 ct: -0.004 3/ 3 ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0 ^[[J^MA: 0.3 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.$ Exiting... (Quit) 8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8=8 I have tried adding options -fs and -zoom without either changing the size of the picture. -- Cheers, Bev ===================================================================== A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet?