Forgot to mention that KMPlayer is a handy KDE front-end to MPlayer, xine, ffmpeg, MEncoder, and more.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/kmplayer.html Curtis On Thu April 1 2004 08:44, you wrote: > AFAIK, DRI should support your chipset (been awhile since I used an ATI > card -- it was an 16MB ATI Rage Mobility M (a.k.a. Rage Mobility 128) in a > laptop, and DRI worked great). > > MPlayer comes with an number of video output drivers that it can use to > send the rendered video to the display driver. Here's a partial list to > give you an idea. > > $ mplayer -vo help > > Available video output drivers: > xmga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay in X11 window > (using /dev/mga_vid) > mga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay (/dev/mga_vid) > xv X11/Xv > x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) > xover General X11 driver for overlay capable vo's > gl X11 (OpenGL) > gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version > [...] > > Of course, the underlying video card driver support has to be there. I > think the default for MPlayer is to use x11, so there's not a lot of > configuration to be done if you already have X working. > > HTH, > Curtis > > On Thu April 1 2004 02:51, Jesse Kline wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 16:03, Curtis Sloan wrote: > > > What video card do you have? Obviously having accelerated drivers (not > > > just 3D) will play a big part (i.e. not using framebuffer). Also, if > > > you're using MPlayer, changing the video output driver can make a big > > > difference. > > > > It's an ATI Rage Mobility chipset. I'm using the vesa driver. What > > accelerated driver should I be using? Dri maybe? I've been playing > > around with Xine and Gstreamer, but I'll give MPlayer a try as well. I'm > > just not sure what the different video output drivers do. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jesse > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
