On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote: > Marc Espie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The way to do things properly would be to auto-detect xv and use it, and >> fall back to x11 otherwise. > > Actually, mplayer allows you to specify a comma-separated list of > video output drivers that will be tried one after the other, e.g. > > $ mplayer -vo xv,x11 foo.mp4 > > So "xv,x11" would be a sensible default setting for gnome-mplayer.
I'm going to try this... thanks, David
