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englishpremier
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:39 pm    Post subject: Mplayer+Matrox G400 TVout Reply with quote

I bought a matrox g400 for my PC for the sole reason of playing back video files and dvds to my TV.

However I have as yet been unable to configure TVout to work fuly, with Mplayer using anything other x11 (which is what i don't want). I know a few of you on these boards use the G400 with Mplayer and enjoy full hardware accelarated video playback onto a TV.

I have emerged DirectFB and compiled Mplayer but i still get
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Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
when trying to play a video file. I really need some help with this please.

Can anyone provide me with a complete how to on this at all?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get yourself some more information on DirectFB, I don't have a howto ready but if you search in their ML archive, you'll probably find what you need.
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