[HLUG] Re: MPlayer problem...

[Emon]

> Hi Emon and Happy New Year to everyone
> 
> I have the same behaviour using '-vo x11', but with '-vo xv' or
> '-vo x11 -zoom' I get full screen with scaling. These are command line
> options to mplayer. gmplayer works well with the X11 driver if you start
> it with the -zoom option, though give the xv video driver a go if it is
> available, it zooms automatically.

Thanks for the suggestion

BUT (there is always a but, isn't it) there is a problem. The
reason I did not switch to the 'xv' driver is because then the
video quality gets degraded (I will try to explain the meaning
of "degraded" later).
This not the first time this has happened, before MPlayer the
other two GUI player that I used are xine & gxine. xine gives
degraded video while gxine performs OK.

Somebody suggested that can use the "x11" driver but should put
the following line in "~/.mplayer/config"

zoom=yes

now I get full screen using x11 driver but the video quality is
always degraded, whether I use x11 or xv; or full screen or
original size.
So I removed "zoom=yes" from "~/.mplayer/config" and now at
least I get good video while using the x11 driver with original
video size.

Now I will try to explain the meaning of "degraded" as best as I
can.
Back in those days when I used to play NFS2 on win98, the game
had an option of changing the image quality by pressing F2; one
of the option was "interlaced". In this option you get a lot of
closely spaced horizontal lines on your screen (don't ask me
why, I don't have a clue). Now my problem is not exactly that,
but the video kind of slightly breaks up into closely spaced
horizontal lines, and then it becomes OK agin. One second it's
degraded, the next second it's OK... and so it goes on. 
My apologies in advance for putting you guys through probably
the most idiotic explanation ever, but honestly don't know how
else to explain it.

Is it possible to take a screen shot of the video and then send
it to you guy as attachment?? if so please let me know how to
take screen shot of video in gmplyer.

Also I am using a custom compiled 2.6.13 kernel, could it have
any thing to do the problem??

Here are few more details on my machine, if it helps

Processor: Duron 850MHz
RAM: 512 MB (running at 266MHz)
AGP: 64MB (GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x) 
I am using a driver that I downloaded from the nvidia site.

Thanks again
Emon