[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[mgp-users 01401] Re: mplayer + magicpoint

Hi,
Adding -g option when you execute mgp might be a solution for you.

Thanks,
--
Yoshifumi Nishida
nishida@csl.sony.co.jp

From: Ethan <telmnstr@757.org>
Subject: [mgp-users 01400] mplayer + magicpoint
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:55:04 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <>

 > Hello everyone,
 > 
 >  I'm still playing with Magic Point. I really like it. To the point and
 > fairly snappy!
 > 
 >  I'm calling magic point from xinit, and causing it to go full screen. It
 > took me a while to figure out I had to specify -U on the command line to
 > use the %system call. I'd suggest adding this note to the sample.mpg as
 > well as SYNTAX.
 > 
 >  Once that was done, I've started experimenting with calling mplayer from
 > magicpoint. Using the xvidix driver with magicpoint, the video plays very
 > well. The issue I'm hitting is that when calling it from the %system call,
 > mplayer is executing but the video must be behind the magicpoint display.
 > 
 >  If I call mplayer from a ssh session on the same box with magic point in
 > the middle of a presentation then mplayer displays OVER the magicpoint
 > window, as desired. Any idea what is going on? I saw some talk on a google
 > search about window IDs... I'm not running a window manager at all.
 > 
 >  TIA!
 > 
 > 
 > --
 >                                // Ethan O'Toole
 >                                // http://users.757.org/~ethan
 >