mplayer + fbdev + kernel 2.6.10 do not work very well

MasterX · Veteran Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 1165

Hi
I found the following problem with mplayer and fbdev

When I was using kernel 2.6.7 I was switching to another terminal and run mplayer with "-vo fbdev". Because the image was small the command "-vop scale=1024:768" will resize it to the size of the screen.

Now, that I am using kernel 2.6.10 the switch "-vop scale=1024:768" results in either no image or the lower part of the image on the top of the screen; the width of the image is equal to the width of the screen. Wether I would get an image or not I think depends on the type of the movie (avi, mpeg, etc).

With the new kernel I do have support of framebuffer; I used the config file from the previous version of the kernel.

Does anybody know why this is happening? Is this a bug in the code of the kernel/mplayer?

I forgot to say that I have mplayer-1_pre6a

Thank you

MasterX · Veteran Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 1165

No one has ever experienced this?
Does this mean that it works fine for you or that you have not tested it?

BlastM · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:35 am Post subject:

I've been experiencing it.

I'm sorry I can't contribute anything, other than letting you know you're not alone.

Mplayer was fetched and compiled last night (from x86), as were all it's dependencies. Kernel 2.6.9-rc2-love4.

Gentist · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 247

I've been trying to get mplayer to run on my console, though while fbdev worked for me, scaling the video (-vf scale=1280:960) kills the framerate completely, which makes it pointless to watch the video.

Right now I'm using the following:

k_max · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 20

hi all!

i'm using the following code in my ~/.bashrc. i have a 1024x768 fb console.

Gentist · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 247

I tried your setup, but it's still slow. Isn't there some acceleration for nvidia cards or something? Or am I missing some option in MPlayer? I'm running gensplash with framebuffer at 1280x1024@75Hz. As I mentioned before, not scaling it works fine.

My mplayer --version says:

MasterX · Veteran Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 1165

It turns out that I do not experience this for all the movies. There were movies which were played just fine and some others which gave me the above problem.