Multimedia on FreeBSD

Olivier Gautherot ogautherot at freesurf.fr
Mon Aug 2 08:22:33 PDT 2004


Hi Luis!

>Hi Everybody! 
>I have install the mplayer video player. 
>I used to run it on Linux and i get the full screen with no  delay 
>subtitles, etc. 
>But i cant run it in fullscreen on FreeBSD..i guess the problem is.. 
>the command: 
>mplayer -sub [subtitle] [movie.avi] -vo sdl -fs 
>I guess my problem is the sdl driver.. 
>  
>

I would bet on the graphics card driver: which card do you use?
I had a similar problem on an nVIDIA card before I updated the
XFree86 driver. The command line looks fine.

Olivier



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