[gentoo-user] What happened with -vo vesa in Mplayer?

[gentoo-user] What happened with -vo vesa in Mplayer?

[Alexander Fortwinder]

I used to play movies on the console with -vo vesa option, mplayer -vo vesa -x 1280 -y 1024 somefile.avi
Right now there is no available vesa driver at all in my mplayer installation. Where did it go? I can
play (sort of) with -vo fbdev or fbdev2, but my resolution is about 1/8 or less of the actual screen size.
What options should be enabled and what other people use to play movies in full resolution in console?
Thanks. Alex

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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened with -vo vesa in Mplayer?

[Richard Fish]

On 7/22/06, Alexander Fortwinder <alex_fortwinder@nerdshack.com> wrote:
> I used to play movies on the console with -vo vesa option, mplayer -vo vesa -x 1280 -y 1024 somefile.avi
> Right now there is no available vesa driver at all in my mplayer installation. Where did it go?

This is just a guess, since I have never used this option in mplayer,
but maybe the vesa output driver requires USE=ggi for mplayer?

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened with -vo vesa in Mplayer?

[Richard Fish]

On 7/24/06, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> AFAIK, ggi is a separate driver. The vesa driver seems to be
> totally ignored in the current ebuilds (at least the word doesn't
> occour anywhere).
>
> Maybe file a bug ?

I did a bit more checking on this, and you are right, ggi is
definitely not the answer.

The ebuilds let the mplayer configure script autodetect for various
drivers.  It also looks like mplayer changed the VESA driver for
1.0_pre8 [1] to depend upon the lrmi library and their own vesautils
stuff.  Previous (pre7) versions did not.

The bad news is that while lrmi exists in the portage tree, there is
no ebuild for vesautils.
So for now if you want the vesa driver, you will have to stick with _pre7...

-Richard

[1] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened with -vo vesa in Mplayer?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:46:32 -0700
"Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:

> On 7/24/06, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> > AFAIK, ggi is a separate driver. The vesa driver seems to be
> > totally ignored in the current ebuilds (at least the word doesn't
> > occour anywhere).
> >
> > Maybe file a bug ?
> 
> I did a bit more checking on this, and you are right, ggi is
> definitely not the answer.
> 
> The ebuilds let the mplayer configure script autodetect for various
> drivers.  It also looks like mplayer changed the VESA driver for
> 1.0_pre8 [1] to depend upon the lrmi library and their own vesautils
> stuff.  Previous (pre7) versions did not.
> 
> The bad news is that while lrmi exists in the portage tree, there is
> no ebuild for vesautils.
> So for now if you want the vesa driver, you will have to stick with _pre7...
> 
> -Richard


the vesa fdriver works on geexbox with _pre8

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> [1] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
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