Hi everyone. I've a laptop I've which I dual head at home with an lcd monitor. It works fine apart from videos (of any type). The laptop alone plays them fine but I can't see them on the lcd dual screen under M-player. the strange thing is that Avidemux plays them no problem at all. Under M-player I get sound but a blank blue video screen. The lcd plays them fine too when connected directly to the server. 10.1 There's some stuff on google but not quite what I'm describing. Any ideas anyone? Cheers, Steve.
On Monday 23 October 2006 10:31, Primm wrote:
I've a laptop I've which I dual head at home with an lcd monitor. It works fine apart from videos (of any type). The laptop alone plays them fine but I can't see them on the lcd dual screen under M-player. the strange thing is that Avidemux plays them no problem at all. Under M-player I get sound but a blank blue video screen. The lcd plays them fine too when connected directly to the server. 10.1
I have a dual head setup with Matrox G450, and MPlayer behaves like that in normal mode. But if I change the video output driver to x11, MPlayer is able to play (with a moving picture) on both screens. mplayer -vo x11 yourmovieclip.here.avi regards j -- Jonas Helgi Palsson "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer." -Erik Naggum
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:59, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
On Monday 23 October 2006 10:31, Primm wrote:
I've a laptop I've which I dual head at home with an lcd monitor. It works fine apart from videos (of any type). The laptop alone plays them fine but I can't see them on the lcd dual screen under M-player. the strange thing is that Avidemux plays them no problem at all. Under M-player I get sound but a blank blue video screen. The lcd plays them fine too when connected directly to the server. 10.1
I have a dual head setup with Matrox G450, and MPlayer behaves like that in normal mode. But if I change the video output driver to x11, MPlayer is able to play (with a moving picture) on both screens.
mplayer -vo x11 yourmovieclip.here.avi
regards j
Hi. I tried that but get a load of errors. Permissions probably. Any quick solution? I've no ides where to put the startup script line. would /etc/boot.local do? Cheers, Steve Here are the messages: mplayer -vo x11 myfile.avi MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.0 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: Permission denied Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing myfile.avi. File not found: 'myfile.avi' Failed to open myfile.avi.
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:59, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
On Monday 23 October 2006 10:31, Primm wrote:
I've a laptop I've which I dual head at home with an lcd monitor. It works fine apart from videos (of any type). The laptop alone plays them fine but I can't see them on the lcd dual screen under M-player. the strange thing is that Avidemux plays them no problem at all. Under M-player I get sound but a blank blue video screen. The lcd plays them fine too when connected directly to the server. 10.1
I have a dual head setup with Matrox G450, and MPlayer behaves like that in normal mode. But if I change the video output driver to x11, MPlayer is able to play (with a moving picture) on both screens.
mplayer -vo x11 yourmovieclip.here.avi
regards j
Just got it going. Please ignore the last posting. Now, can I make that setting stick without having to use the command line everytime? Cheers, Steve
Primm wrote:
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:59, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote: (snip)
mplayer -vo x11 yourmovieclip.here.avi
regards j
Just got it going. Please ignore the last posting.
Now, can I make that setting stick without having to use the command line everytime?
What desktop manager? On KDE: right click mplayer icon>properties>application and edit the command line. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704
On Monday 23 October 2006 16:57, Jos van Kan wrote:
Primm wrote:
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:59, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
(snip)
mplayer -vo x11 yourmovieclip.here.avi
regards j
Just got it going. Please ignore the last posting.
Now, can I make that setting stick without having to use the command line everytime?
What desktop manager? On KDE: right click mplayer icon>properties>application and edit the command line.
Regards,
Sorry. yes of course. I'm being thick today. BTW I just found that you can do it from within a running session by right clicking on the playback screen. Nice. Thanks for all your help. Cheers, Steve
On 10/23/06, Primm
Just got it going. Please ignore the last posting.
Now, can I make that setting stick without having to use the command line everytime?
Cheers, Steve
You can add: vo=x11 either in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf - for systemwide setting or in your home dir .mplayer/config - for per user setting Cheers -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap.
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 16:24 +0200, Primm wrote:
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:59, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
On Monday 23 October 2006 10:31, Primm wrote:
I've a laptop I've which I dual head at home with an lcd monitor. It works fine apart from videos (of any type). The laptop alone plays them fine but I can't see them on the lcd dual screen under M-player. the strange thing is that Avidemux plays them no problem at all. Under M-player I get sound but a blank blue video screen. The lcd plays them fine too when connected directly to the server. 10.1
I have a dual head setup with Matrox G450, and MPlayer behaves like that in normal mode. But if I change the video output driver to x11, MPlayer is able to play (with a moving picture) on both screens.
mplayer -vo x11 yourmovieclip.here.avi
regards j
Just got it going. Please ignore the last posting.
Now, can I make that setting stick without having to use the command line everytime?
Cheers, Steve
X11 should always work on, well, X. Your videoadapter driver can only allow one video output to be accessed directly. Not sure if its a hardware o driver issue? You can edit your xorg.conf file to choose which screen gets direct access (driver dependent) (cant remember the options, mail me directly if your stuck) x11 is much slower than xv (default) E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 14:11, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 16:24 +0200, Primm wrote:
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:59, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
On Monday 23 October 2006 10:31, Primm wrote:
I've a laptop I've which I dual head at home with an lcd monitor. It works fine apart from videos (of any type). The laptop alone plays them fine but I can't see them on the lcd dual screen under M-player. the strange thing is that Avidemux plays them no problem at all. Under M-player I get sound but a blank blue video screen. The lcd plays them fine too when connected directly to the server. 10.1
I have a dual head setup with Matrox G450, and MPlayer behaves like that in normal mode. But if I change the video output driver to x11, MPlayer is able to play (with a moving picture) on both screens.
mplayer -vo x11 yourmovieclip.here.avi
regards j
Just got it going. Please ignore the last posting.
Now, can I make that setting stick without having to use the command line everytime?
Cheers, Steve
X11 should always work on, well, X. Your videoadapter driver can only allow one video output to be accessed directly. Not sure if its a hardware o driver issue? You can edit your xorg.conf file to choose which screen gets direct access (driver dependent) (cant remember the options, mail me directly if your stuck) x11 is much slower than xv (default)
That's a pity. You can see it flicker under X11 especially with DVD's. I'd like to have xv on the second monitor. Is that possible? Is that what you refer to in your xorg.conf file? Steve. Steve.
On Oct 24, 06 14:11:09 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
Your videoadapter driver can only allow one video output to be accessed directly. Not sure if its a hardware o driver issue? You can edit your
This typically is *always* a hardware issue. With the radeon driver you can select the output slot the scaler will use, with others it is often fixed. At least NVIDIA doesn't use this approach any more.
xorg.conf file to choose which screen gets direct access (driver
Not any longer. This used to be. In the meantime this is an environment variable.
dependent) (cant remember the options, mail me directly if your stuck) x11 is much slower than xv (default)
And typically of lower quality.
Matthias
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