On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 22:39, John Allman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:20 AM, John Allman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried playing a file using: > > mplayer -vo fbdev <file>
No this is not what I meant. Do start X and try to use xvideo. The xdriver is build so that you can use xvideo instead of the plain framebuffer. > It played much better and didn't cause the traceback. However, it > didn't play perfectly (the video was too slow and began lagging badly > behind the audio) and gave me some sort of a warning about the cache. > I'm guessing this is something that could be fixable and is unrelated > but thought I'd mention it anyway. Anything that uses the framebuffer direct will be horribly slow. So, startx with no mythfrontend and run mplayer with switch -vo xv or -vo x11. Greets Sander _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
