MPlayer + Geforce FX 5700 LE

[tiki4]

Well,

since I upgraded my video card from my old Geforce 2 MX to this new one I am no longer able to switch video output to full screen res. For the time being I'm running SuSE 9.0 with X.org 6.7 nv or NVidia binary drivers. I tried to switch to full screen resolution with different video output drivers and different XviD videos (MP4 container). The same problem occurs with motv which I used to use for watching TV. Has anyone experienced similar problems?


Regards,

tiki4

[hulkenstrong]

yes with my gf4 untill I installed nvidias official drivers then it whent away.

[tiki4]

No, not even with Nvidia's binary drivers (tested latest two releases).

But nevermind, funnily it works with SuSE 9.1 and XFree 4.3.99. Maybe I broke something in my 9.0 installation?

Thanks for your answer,

tiki4

[thoralf]

Probably caused by the X.org X server... I'm running suse 9.1 with the xfree server and a 5700 ultra with no problems at all.

[ummon]

As far as I know it's an problem with X.org. There is an bug in the memorymanagement of X.org. When X runs for a while the free videomemory is fragmented and X.org cannt provide enough contiguous memory for an overlay. Sometimes when the resolution of the video you try to play is small enough it works. But in most cases mplayer segfaults. I hope this bug will be adressed in the soon to come X.org 6.8. For now you can workaround the problem by not using an videooverlay (don't use xv). "mplayer -vo x11 -zoom -fs <filename>" for exanmple should work flawless exept for the huge amount of CPU time the softwarescaling "-zoom" requires.

[shevegen]

I love it that people who know way more add their knowledge.

/me feels like a small nail in a BORG knowledge FAQ database :>

[tiki4]

Thanks to all of you for your kind help.

tiki4