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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> Using 3c59x (3com PCI) I was unable to ifconfig down in order to remove
> the eth0 which was using IRQ5 on the computer without DVD player, so I had
> to insmod sb at IRQ10, which was free (SCSI had 9, eth0 had 5).  Mplayer
> old played wav files there perfectly with ao=oss in /root/.config/mplayer.
> I used to play DVDs on it.  S3 Trio3D video card, Xvesa or vesa.

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> The DVD drive is now in a computer with Matrox Millenium VESA 2.0 card.
> It does not play DVDs with old or new mplayer in vesa mode.  (It also
> crashes in vesafb mode if you load any video mode other than default, but
> works with matroxfb).

My laptop card also does not work with mplayer's vesa mode.
I think it needs a fully compliant vesa 2.0 card, and is even
less tolerant of non-vesa2 cards than vesafb is.

> framebuffer (-vo vesa) produces a scrambled picture with several copies of
> the same image side by side and lines through them.

-vo vesa works perfectly here. No framebuffer, using BL3.40
almost unmodified. This is with my ATI card.

> The old mplayer does not do svgalib.  The new one does.

I forgot to update the documentation, so the manpages are
for the previous version and do not cover the new features
and modified syntax of the new version. I will upload a fresh
copy with the correct manpages next time. Somehow, I did
remember to update the vidix drivers.

We need to verify that it works with racook and several
other win32 codecs. Ron, have you verified that racook
still crashes on your machine?

> For Mplayer it produces a single image, which blinks continuosly.  So I
> set it back to chipset unspecified and Mplayer now displays properly.

Compiled with svgalib 1.4.3.

> On the old computer I had /root/.mplayer/config set to
> ao=oss
> vo=vesa
>
> These worked the same as CLI -ao oss -vo vesa with Trio3D card.
>
> On the new computer I can specify -ao oss and -vo svga CLI, but the config
> file does not work.  I get a message about Audio: no sound if I use just
> the config file, and video looks first for X11 and then eventually finds
> svgalib.  x11 is the default, I think.  So I need to specify both on
> command line.  I made a script.  Is Matrox causing this problem somehow?
> The config file works on one computer and not on the other.

This might be due to Matrox somehow. But if this is BL2, are
you sure that ~ points to /root?

The config is working perfectly here on single user BL3. I
put it in /root/.mplayer/config, which is root's default. A
blank one (with a useless one-line comment) was created
when I started mplayer for the first time. I added ao=sdl
and now it says that it is using sdl when I play back. I also
tried vo=svga; that seems to work just as well.

> I had not tried Mplayer with dvds on this computer, using the old package.
> Did the new package somehow affect the setup so that even the old binary
> won't look at the config file?

I doubt it. The only modifications that I made were:
* Removed the /etc/issue-like message, which I found
kind of annoying
* Removed mencoder
* Replaced mplayer.lz with an updated version
* Updated vidix drivers
* Made the package with makepkg instead of tar

oss works for me by default, (i.e. without specifying -ao
oss on the command line or in the config file) with
BL3.40 default kernel and opl3sa2 drivers from Steven's
module repository.

David