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  • From: David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Framebuffer
  • Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:30:40 -0800

On 12/12/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> >> Can Mplayer be used with svgalib instead of X or vesafb?
> >
> > MPlayer in general can. However, I left out svgalib support from
> > the static mplayer.tgz.
>
> Why?

I did not have svgalib at that time.

> A former list member just downloaded my copy of mplayer.tgz and is
> impressed. He said the Slackware version was about 26MB and had lots of
> dependencies. What does it support besides x11 and vesa (framebuffer) or
> is there a way to query it?

mplayer -vo help

> He is trying to use it as a viewer and says it needs x11.

That's the default. Switch with the -vo option.

> Is framebuffer smaller or faster than X_SVGA?

I'm not sure.

David




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