DOS ain't dead - MPlayer and Vidix

MPlayer and Vidix (Miscellaneous)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 21.01.2008, 22:12

Wow! It works!
To be more precious - it doesn't work on my primary machine: CPU 1,3GHz with GeForce 4MX card. But it doesn't hurt becouse this computer is fast enough for VESA output.
But what is important, it works great on my secondary machine: CPU 300MHz with ATI Rage XL. It is much faster than the VESA output - it is even comparable to QuickView hardware acceleration. BTW: maybe QV also uses some DOS port of Vidix?
I suggest this command line: "mplayer -vo cvidix -fs -zoom VIDEO.AVI" (without -x and -y parameters)
On the 300MHz machine is the VESA output for AVIs so so but via CVidix is it perfect. DVD via VESA is jerky, via CVidix OK. WMV is probably very CPU intensive, even CVidix doesn't help much :-(

But what is bad: AVI output is stable (for both VESA and CVidix) but WMV and even more DVDs are quite unsable and crash after 10-20 seconds. Can someone with some more powerful machine confirm it?

BTW: the crash in CVidix output is very funny because even if the textmode is again set, there is still viewed the graphics window. It sound and looks crazy but there really remains in the textmode perfectly smooth graphics image. (Has any demo coder some use for it?)
And you can do nothing with it :-) If you change the videomode it doesn't help. The only solution is to run again MPlayer or QuickViewer (if you have the hardware acceleration allowed)

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MPlayer and Vidix - Laaca, 20.01.2008, 10:05 (Miscellaneous)
- MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 20.01.2008, 11:06
- MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 20.01.2008, 20:02
  - MPlayer and Vidix - Laaca, 21.01.2008, 22:12
- MPlayer and Vidix - RayeR, 20.01.2008, 21:26
  - MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 20.01.2008, 21:31
    - MPlayer and Vidix - RayeR, 20.01.2008, 21:34
      - MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 20.01.2008, 21:53
        MPlayer and Vidix - RayeR, 21.01.2008, 03:31
        MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 21.01.2008, 07:23
        MPlayer and Vidix - RayeR, 21.01.2008, 10:56
        MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 21.01.2008, 16:24
        MPlayer and Vidix - RayeR, 21.01.2008, 19:20
        MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 21.01.2008, 22:23
        MPlayer and Vidix - RayeR, 21.01.2008, 23:35
        MPlayer and Vidix - flox, 22.01.2008, 12:02
        MPlayer and Vidix - RayeR, 22.01.2008, 00:40
        MPlayer and Vidix - flox, 22.01.2008, 11:59
        MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 22.01.2008, 12:49
        MPlayer and Vidix - DOS386, 24.01.2008, 01:54
        MPlayer and Vidix - Laaca, 24.01.2008, 07:29
        MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 24.01.2008, 10:35
        MPlayer and Vidix - RayeR, 24.01.2008, 13:08
        MPlayer and Vidix - Khusraw, 24.01.2008, 13:39
        MPlayer and Vidix - RayeR, 24.01.2008, 14:01