mplayer, edgy, asus pundit-r
Earlier, I wrote on how to get TV out working on Ubuntu and an Asus Pundit-R.
I recently upgraded to Edgy Eft (release 6.10) and all of a sudden, video output looked really weird. The bottom third of various videos in various formats was getting cut off. Not very nice for a machine whose purpose is to play videos on my TV…
After mucking around for a couple hours with reinstalling drivers, etc. I figured out a simple workaround:
% mplayer -vo x11 foo.avi
Specifying x11 instead of xv made the problem go away, and I can play videos normally now. If you like, you can edit /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and have it default to using x11 for the -vo option.
Not sure what changed in xv between Dapper and Edgy, but it sure was annoying. Hopefully things will be better in Feisty.
2007
31
Jan
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