* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 16:44, Stan Brown wrote: > > On Sat Nov 24 18:45:28 2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote... > > > > > > > > > > > >You are trying to play 24-bit video on an 8-bit display. Nearly nothing > > >works with 8-bit color because such displays are usually palettes, > > >whereas 16- and 24-bit are continuous color spectra. > > > > > >Change your frame buffer device to 16- or 24-bit color. You can use the > > >fbset program or change it at boot time. See the documentation for > > >fbset for more information. > > > > > K, that got me closer. I woulnd up using: > > > > mplayer -vo fbdev -fbmode tv -vm [file_to_play] > > > > Anid it displayed, centered on the framebufer display. However it was > > pretty small (about 3" x 4"), > > The framebuffer device does not expose an interface to the hardware > video scaler, and software video scaling is pretty slow. Mplayer (which > I have never used) may not be capable of software scaline. > > > I run fbtv as "fbtv -mtv" and it pretty much fills the entire screen, which > > is what I want to replicate, while playing recoded video. > > TV tuners usually include their own scaling hardware, and they draw > directly into the video output. Hence the difference. The best > solution would be to define a video mode at the same size as the AVI > files you are playing. I have special modes I use for playing DVDs, for > example, to match the resolution and frame rate of most films. > > -jwb
⌡Can you please post the modes for DVDs et cetera? Thank you, Alex.
