[arch-general] clipped video output with multihead

[Mauro Santos]

On 18-12-2011 14:15, Mauro Santos wrote:
> On 18-12-2011 04:10, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote:
>> When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime)
>>
>> MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
>> 162 audio & 361 video codecs
> 
> Can you give mplayer (just mplayer, not mplayer2) a try? I've had
> problems with mplayer2 before, not with video playback but with
> subtitles. I'm not familiar with tvtime so I can't provide any comments
> about it.
> 
> As for mplayer try using a different video out driver, use
> 'mplayer -vo driver video_file'
> 
> You can get a list of drivers with 'mplayer -vo help'. Some that may be
> worth trying are: xv (most probably the one mplayer auto selects), x11,
> sdl, gl, gl2, gl_nosw. Some of these might not have any form of
> acceleration so they may be slow or cpu intensive but will do for
> testing as you may be hitting some bug in the drivers.
> 
> Also try with vlc and check if the same happens, I think vlc will also
> try to use xv and if the problem is the same it might help to determine
> what the problem is.
> 
> 

Phone calls and lunch got in the way of writing a reply and this was
already suggested and tried, sorry for the noise as this as nothing to add.

As for tv time, if it uses mplayer as a backend then it might read
~/.mplayer/config. If it does then you can set the video out driver in
the config file with a line:
vo=driver

-- 
Mauro Santos