Hello Francois,

Monday, October 22, 2001, 11:37:12 AM, you wrote:

FK> Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:45:23AM +0200, Francois Kritzinger wrote:
>> > Software
>> > --------
>> > FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE
>> > XFree86 3.6
>> 
>> old
>> 
>> > avifile-0.60.20010429_1/
>> 
>> this is even older :)
>> 
>> > In Windows these same files play perfectly even in full screen.
>> 
>> Well I'm not sure how well is supported Xv extension on FreeBSD -
>> as far as I know  XVideo extension for GeForce cards works only
>> with NVidia drivers and they are released only for Windows & Linux
>> and I'm not sure if you could simply use this libraries in FreeBSD.

FK> That really sucks.

This is not true, at least in Linux XVideo extension works fine for me
( XFree86 4.1.0, GeForce 2 MX, 'nv' open-source driver that came with
XFree86 installation ).

>>
>> > ----------------
>> > Nvidia do not supply FreeBSD drivers for the GeForce - could this be the
>> > cause?
>> 
>> probably yes
>> 
>> > Also, in FreeBSD there is a kernel option which enables VESA (and my
>> > kernel doesn't have it enabled). Would this help?
>> 
>> you would need really fast computer to be able to use scaled X11 video
>> 
>> so maybe you should install small linux partion (like 400MB with
>> just packages needed to run XFree and view your movies in this way)
>> 
>> also you may try mplayer

FK> Why would things be different with mplayer?

They won't.

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