On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:49:26AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > I didn't even think to check changing the video driver because the problem > seemed persistant across different applications. Didn't occur to me that > they could all be using the same video drivers. > > > The problem seems to only occur with the SDL driver, which is fullscreen.
SDL can also use YUV overlay (cf. http://tinyurl.com/l66kc) *or* write straight to an X11 window. One way to test whether SDL is using YUV overlay is to start another application that uses YUV overlay (such as your TV app) and then run mplayer with SDL video output. Since you generally can have only one app that uses YUV overlay, SDL should fall back on a backup video driver (not the same thing as mplayer's video output driver), and give you a better color... if it's really the overlay issue. > I've played Quake 3, which uses SDL, on this computer and it plays fine. > When I get home, I'll take a look at the cutscenes and see if they suffer > from the same washed out color. Quake 3 on SDL probably uses OpenGL (cf. http://tinyurl.com/h924y). > I have to admit, I'm a little jealous of MS Windows users. Video in > either windowed or fullscreen mode at work "just works". :( :( They usually work (but not always) if you leave it alone. Most Linux users tweak their video driver to death. -Mark -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Cyworld: http://www.cyworld.com/markuskimius Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
