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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > > > There is no sound at all.
> > >
> > > Please see if you can figure out what is causing this.
> >
> > VESA was causing it.  X11 did not slow it down at all, just shrank
> > the picture to 1/2 size.
>
> Your CPU is fast. My PII needs -vo vesa to get a good display.

What are the symptoms of a bad display?
I am amazed that this board can handle a demanding task like this, 
considering that we got it dead and replaced 6 capacitors.  The printer 
port is the only thing broken on it that I know of so far.

> > > Add the -noaspect option to play at the "standard" resolution.
> > > This also speeds things up a little. You can do all kinds of
> > > goofy resizes to the video with MPlayer (the kitchen sink of
> > > video players)
> >
> > Would this squash it sideway to fit on the monitor?
>
> No. It would play at the standard DVD aspect ratio.

Why does -noaspect give you a standard aspect (which I presume is the 
picture that is wider than would be usual on a monitor)?  I will read the 
documentation some time soon.

> > Did I mention that the first mplayer played streaming audio?  (I
> > need to put in a 56K modem).

> The first MPlayer lacks good RTSP support.

I have not tried it on realaudio or ogg, just mp3.  A 24K station did not 
sound good at a 31K connection, kept losing bits of sound and had a 
premature end of file in a little while.  I will switch modems to see if 
56K (42000-45000 connect speed) fixes that.