From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Nov 25 6:28:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DCA37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC72443EB2 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gAPESJV10351; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:28:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gAPESIi21013; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:28:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from mm112324-2k.mitre.org (128.29.3.65) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 244269; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:28:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3DE23379.7030803@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:28:09 -0500 From: Jason Andresen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer: xv vs. sdl References: <200211250948.50430.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> In-Reply-To: <200211250948.50430.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: >Hi! > >I've got a naggin little problem with mplayer. If I use xv as video-output I >get small jitters in the playback. If I use sdl, but I can't change >brightness/contrast and thus the playback is very dark. > >Any ideas why xv behaves so oddly, shouldn't it give the best performance? >(I've got at Matrox G400)? > >And where/how do I configure SDL? There is no 'man sdl', the documentation in >/usr/local/share/doc are for delelopers and I can't find any config-files? Is >it possible to adjust brightness/contrast/gamma in SDL? > The first thing to check is that you have xv configured correctly (xvinfo will tell you). If not, mplayer may be reverting to X images. Also, is your CPU usage higher when using Xv instead of SDL? If so, that indicates a problem with Xv on your system. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message