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

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
> > 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.

Our two AGP ATI cards work perfectly with vesafb too.  What works with 
vesafb may also work with -vo vesa and mplayer.

> > 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?
I will check.  I don't think I ever changed it from BL2 setup.

> 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.
What is sdl?

> > 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.

If I don't specify it won't play any sound at all.
2.4.31 kernel and modules on both computers and it all works on the other 
one.

> David