Re: MPlayer

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On Sunday 27 October 2002 04:39 pm, Robert Golovniov wrote:
> Hello psyche-list,
>
>   While  I  am  having  problems  installing  Xine,  I've tried to use
>   MPlayer.  Well, first I was unable to run the sound via Alsa, but it
>   went OK via OSS. The biggest problem, though, is the actual "screen"
>   size. Even in full-screen mode, I still get only very little window.
>   Changing the "size" options did not do a thing.

Check the config file, if you don't specify a video output device with the 
- -vo option, it defaults to the one listed in that file. It's in 
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf. Options in ~/.mplayer/config override the 
global config file. Using the config file for defaults avoids having to 
remember the multiple command line switches that are possible.

Have you tried using the -xy option? I have an MPEG that when played 
displays in about a 3x3 inch window. 'mplayer -xy 2 file' doubles the 
display size. The movie, by the way, is a funny animated clip. If you 
have nothing better to do, it's here:
http://www.hash.com/users/navone/HTML/AlienSongDownload.htm

>   With  another  file things went better, though. I was able to run it
>   almost  full-screen, but then I got synchronizaiton problem with the
>   sound.  The  image  was  also  quite  slow and I got an error screen
>   suggesting  that  I  either try Alsa or try other workarounds. I was
>   just wondering, why should this happen at all with 640Mb RAM? Was it
>   perhaps because I set only 520Mb for SWAP? If so, is there any way I
>   can  increase this partition without actually reinstalling the whole
>   system?

Performance is at least as much a function of processor speed and video 
hardware as memory.

How did you install mplayer? Self compiled, or RPM package?
There are a _lot_ of compile time options for mplayer. I used the source 
rpm package from here:
http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/
edited the spec file to include different options (like Arts sound server 
support), and rebuilt the rpms. Then, when the build failed, I fixed the 
file list in the spec file, and built them again. ;) The default config 
options in the spec file would have worked on my machine, but were far 
from optimal.
 
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