On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:27:20 +1100 Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > New TV channels have started being broadcast this weekend and I have > an interesting display problem with the new "HD" channels. > These produce a video display which is larger than my screen. They can > viewed in a X-window session provided the display is windowed and not > full-screen. Full-screen they hang the GUI and give a black display. > Audio is heard. > In the Freevo window manager I get the same. After pressing [Esc] to > quit I have to press [z] a few times to get a display again. I think > that if I had some mplayer settings that would scale them back I might > get something viewable. It is not a high powered processor running > this box, and I have --framedrop set already. > > My display isn't perfect with smaller displays, often a channel is > made square (so everyone is skinny). Pressing [z] for fullscreen will > make it rectangular, but not fill the screen, and positioned to the > right. Pressing [z] again makes no change to the video, as it then > becomes an mplayer interpreted [z] and some delay is programmed. > > Here are my mplayer settings > > MPLAYER_ARGS['dvd'] = '-cache 8192' > MPLAYER_ARGS['dvb'] = '-framedrop -vf pp=de/fd -cache 4096' > MPLAYER_ARGS['vcd'] = '-cache 4096' > MPLAYER_ARGS['cd'] = '-cache 1024 -cdda speed=2' > MPLAYER_ARGS['tv'] = '-nocache' > MPLAYER_ARGS['ivtv'] = '-cache 8192' > MPLAYER_ARGS['avi'] = '-cache 5000 -idx' > MPLAYER_ARGS['flv'] = '-nocache -forceidx' > MPLAYER_ARGS['mp4'] = '-nocache -forceidx' > MPLAYER_ARGS['rm'] = '-cache 5000 -forceidx' > MPLAYER_ARGS['rmvb'] = '-cache 5000 -forceidx' > MPLAYER_ARGS['webcam'] = 'tv:// -tv > driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:outfmt=yuy$ MPLAYER_ARGS['default'] = > '-framedrop -cache 5000' > > TV_SETTINGS = 'pal television australia /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' > > TV_OPTS = '-vo=x11 -framedrop ' > TV_VIEW_OUTFMT = 'yuy2' > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA(R) Conference 2012 > Mar 27 - Feb 2 > Save $400 by Jan. 27 > Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
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