Thanks for your feedback Eric.  I finally got freevo working on full
screen more using x11.  This may not be the best solution, but it
works for the time being.  I fixed this my making MPLAYER_VO_DEV =
"x11" , so my brother is happy for now.


I myself have a Matrox G400 working with directfb, and so far this one
has the best TV out I've seen.  I am currently working on a new media
center based on a VIA EPIA 800 motherboard.. this is going to be
challenging.



On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:29:13 -0700, Eric Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:51:26 -0400
> Peace Monk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your reply Eric.
> >
> > My brother can see full screen video by using gmplayer using x11
> > driver.  So, how can I configure freevo not to use xv at all, but use
> > x11 in full screen?  If this is possible, then the problem is solved.
> >
> > > -vo x11 isn't xv - use -vo xv, leave out the x11 part.
> >
> > I tried all combinationf of xv.  It does not work.  The screen goes
> > full black, but audio works.
> >
> > >    1: run xvinfo, see if that says xv is supported.
> >
> > No adapter present.
> 
>    That's real bad news.
> 
> 
> > >
> > >    2: try adding the v4l module to the list of modules in your x
> > > configuration. a hack, but often works.
> >
> > Tried this. Did not help.
> 
>    You may in fact be stuck.
> 
> 
> > >    btw, how hard was it to get xorg working with your 9200? I tried
> > >    once a
> > > month or so ago and gave up, stuck in a newegg-refurb geforce fx5500
> > > instead.
> >
> > Installing mandrake configured xorg by default.  When the CRT is
> > disconnected, and TV is connected, xwindows is visible on the TV as
> > primary display (requires a reboot).  Did you have to install NVIDIA's
> > propeitary binaries to get your NVIDIA working?  What distro do you
> > use?  Did TV out work right away or had to muck with drivers, and
> > config files?  Bro's got a new NVIDIA 5200 card on standby as last
> > resort.
> 
>    I actually don't use the nvidia box for tv-out, it's my desktop machine.
> I'm using an old Matrox G400-DH for freevo.
> 
>    fwiw, I'm using Debian/Sarge on everything. For some reason there's no
> official or contributed current xorg packages for debian, so i built it
> from source. It was surprisingly easy. I'm not currently using xorg. I
> couldn't find a way to get it to seamlessly interoperate with the rest of
> what i was doing on that computer and decided i didn't care.
> 
>    With the xfree 4.3 nv driver, xvideo works but the method that xawtv
> uses doesn't work. with the proprietary binary, it's the same but faster. I
> hear that xawtv works with the 05xx nvidia binaries, which won't compile
> against 2.6.10. That machine is an athlon64 based on an nforce3ultra and I
> just have a combination of components that don't really work until at least
> 2.6.9, so, there i am.
> 
>    The good news, if you wanted to watch TV through it, is that tvtime
> works very well. As well as tvtime ever works, at least, which is not as
> good as my G200 Marvel with xawtv.
> 
>    My recommendation would be to go with the geforce FX, since you've
> already got it. I've never heard a success story involving a radeon 9x00,
> even in windows - mine didn't work properly in an old athlon system running
> XP, it kept doing this thing where the screen would freeze up for a
> few seconds, then go black a few times, and I'd get a popup message
> saying that my video card stopped working so it was restarted and
> would i like to send a bug report to ATi - did that every couple
> hours. I upgraded various things and tweaked a bunch of stuff in bios and
> never changed the behavior at all.
> 
>    It seems to be behaving itself in another machine running windows 2000,
> but it's a machine i hardly ever use. I know a woman who owns a computer
> store in michigan who had enough bad experiences with the line that she
> just doesn't carry them anymore.
> 
>    I'm sure the issues can all be solved with software, but it's code that
> hasn't trickled down to us yet. ATi isn't very good about cooperating with
> the open source community. For all the malarky with the binary nvidia
> driver, nvidia does actually contribute to the open source drivers for most
> of their devices.
> 
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