[mythtv-users] Geforce 2 Ultra & MPLAYER (Slightly OT)

[Andrew Cockburn]

Hi all,

I am early on in the process here and have a question about mplayer. I 
have setup my backend (no tuner card yet though) and am using a desktop 
machine as a prototype frontend prior to running out and getting an XBox 
. I have plenty of horsepower (Athlon 2800) but an old GeForce 2 Ultra 
graphics card.

My problem is that I can't get Mplayer to play videos. When I start it 
up (from mythfontend, or even form the command line), the screen comes 
up but shows a blank or frozen frame. If  I use the arrow keys to skip 
sections, I will usually get a frame from the beginning of the next 
section frozen, occasionally it will run on for a few frames and then 
stop again.

Xine works impecably so I have enough CPU for the job and mplayer works 
reasonably ok on my backend which has newer generic GeForce 2 MX on it 
(and this is only a 750Mhz machine).  The only important difference 
seems to be the graphics card (both boxes are running red hat 9)

So my questions are :

1. Has anybody seen anything similar with mplayer ? Is there a fix ?
2. As an alternative can I use Xine to view videos and DVDs (I suspect 
it is possible) - if so, does anyone have a detailed howto as I can't 
see anything in the docs.

Thanks !

Regards,

Andrew Cockburn