Re: MPlayer on Vista

Hello,
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:42:05PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:51:18AM +0300, Balan Alexander wrote:
> > >On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:57:18AM +0200, Frank Aurich wrote:
> > >> This means all the transparency/translucency is gone, but even worse is the
> > >> black-out of the display when starting and ending a movie.
> > >>
> > >> The problem lies within vo_directx, but I'm afraid I don't really know
> > >> where to
> > >> look specifically. I haven't found much information from MS yet on what
> > >> causes
> > >> the switch to Vista Basic.
> > >
> > >The overlay hardware can't possibly work in that environment unless your
> > >graphics drivers emulate it via 3D hardware (Xgl on linux uses that
> > >approach, though it has its own problems).
> > >Tried just using -vo gl (or -vo gl:yuv=2 for better speed)?
> > 
> > I have the same problem as Frank Aurich, and I tried your method. With
> > that parameter Vista does not switch, but all I get is a black screen
> > and only sound. Better spped one doesn't work at all.
> 
> Give the full MPlayer output with -v when using -vo gl:yuv=2.

And might also want to try -dr -vo gl:glfinish.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger