No vidix driver name

Here's what happens with 'x11' AVI file format detected. AVI file format detected. Hi Xpire, Any other ideas? Well I suspect it will all come down to my total lack of knowledge of how MPlayer is packaged for the netbook remix Thanks for your reply, Adam.

Unfortunately, I run X and play the video with the same user - root. Any other ideas? You should not be running X as root. I have no explanation for why mplayer is reverting to the null video output device. Try again as a normal user and show us the output of the mplayer command. I have specified -display :0 and the errors are gone, but again mplayer crashes. Here is the full output: Code:. Maybe the font path is wrong.

No idea then. Ok, thank you Adam. Although this is unthinkable for me.. I am the greatest freebsd fan. Reading that someone uses root for daily use on FreeBSD, makes my hard bleed I think the user is not relevant in this case.

It is still considered a very bad idea to run as root for day-to-day use. Many people who provide support will stop assisting you as soon as they find out that you are doing that. What version of Mesa DRI port do you have? It could be driver problem, vsync issue with intel MSI fixed on 8. Alternatively, you can use a special kernel module, like this:. Download the development version of svgalib 1.

The driver supports video equalizers and should be nearly as fast as the Matrox framebuffer. The driver was written and is maintained by Alastair M. For this purpose, we'll have to use the cvidix video output, as the following example shows:. Video output devices Next.

ATI cards. I have been running mplayer without X, but the problem is, with no real hardware acceleration, it struggles with video that i'm sure it would play flawlessly using a propper hardware accelerated driver. I have noticed it is spose to work with an NVidia driver direct to the console, but i cant seem to get that to work. Post by mcgirvanmedia » Tue Jan 23, am On the idea of using mplayer without X, i've been looking into the cvidix driver but cannot seem to get it to work.

I tried installing packages named mplayer-vidix-nvidia