[gentoo-user] Frame buffer and Mplayer

[gentoo-user] Frame buffer and Mplayer

[James Colby]

List Members -

I have a Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440 with TV out.  I was wondering if it
was possible to set up mplayer to play a movie to a framebuffer to the
TV.  I am hoping to avoid having to install X on this machine, as I am
using it more as a server than as a desktop.

Thanks for any advice you may have for me,
James
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Re: [gentoo-user] Frame buffer and Mplayer

[malevolent]

2006/11/20, James Colby <jcolby@gmail.com>:
> List Members -
>
> I have a Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440 with TV out.  I was wondering if it
> was possible to set up mplayer to play a movie to a framebuffer to the
> TV.  I am hoping to avoid having to install X on this machine, as I am
> using it more as a server than as a desktop.
>
> Thanks for any advice you may have for me,
> James
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
You may want to read this article:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_MPlayer_on_Framebuffer
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Re: [gentoo-user] Frame buffer and Mplayer

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 20 November 2006 03:06, James Colby wrote:
> List Members -
>
> I have a Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440 with TV out.  I was wondering if it
> was possible to set up mplayer to play a movie to a framebuffer to
> the TV.  I am hoping to avoid having to install X on this machine, as
> I am using it more as a server than as a desktop.
>
> Thanks for any advice you may have for me,
> James

enable the "directfb" USE flag. It will pull in a ton of new packages if 
they are not already there, and do take note of the warning about new 
versions of DirectFB breaking old ones. You'll need to run 
revdep-rebuild after a DirectFB update just in case - it's caught me 
out several times.

But, the results are well worth it.

alan
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