[ltp] Re: cloned display and video output

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:31:30 -0500


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:39 AM, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
> >>>>> "Evgeni" == Evgeni Golov <sargentd@die-welt.net> writes:
>
>     Evgeni> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:49:08 +0100 Rolf Kutz wrote:
>     >> >What video output driver are you using with mplayer? Maybe try
>     >> using >the x11 one, rather than xv, and see if that makes a
>     >> difference.
>     >>
>     >> That makes a difference, but then I can't scale up the video
>     >> any more (no fullscreen mode).
>
>     Evgeni> -vo x11 -zoom that works here fine :)
>
>  Or just
>
>    xrandr --output LVDS --off
>
>  Then mplayer has no choice about where to display, and you can still use xv.

or
xvattr -p <port> -a XV_PIPE -v 0/1 (intel)
xvattr -p <port> -a XV_CRTC -v 0/1 (radeon)

to switch which crtc the overlay displays on.

Alex