Hi
I contacted the developers of Mplayer/Mencoder on Mac OS X asking about a
problem I have with watching movies on my external PAL TV. He said they used
SDL and didn’t have any solutions except if it was a bug in SDL.
My question therefore is, if any of you know any bugs in SDL preventing it
from playing on PAL monitors? And if there is some way to make it work?
If you need more detailed descriptions of the problem, I will be happy to
give it.
Regards
Franck Roussel
Hi
I contacted the developers of Mplayer/Mencoder on Mac OS X asking
about a
problem I have with watching movies on my external PAL TV.
What is the problem? A few weekends ago I used my Radeon PCI to watch
video on my TV using Mplayer, and had no problems. It was NTSC though.
This doesn’t seem like a bug in SDL, rather a problem with your video
card or driver (SDL doesn’t know/care about PAL or NTSC).On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:01 PM, sdl-request at libsdl.org wrote:
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:59:20 +0100
From: Franck Roussel Rasmussen
To:
Subject: [SDL] Output to PAL TV problem (Mac OS X)
Reply-To: sdl at libsdl.org
What is the problem? A few weekends ago I used my Radeon PCI to watch
video on my TV using Mplayer, and had no problems. It was NTSC though.
This doesn’t seem like a bug in SDL, rather a problem with your video
card or driver (SDL doesn’t know/care about PAL or NTSC).
I have a Rage128 8MB (TiBook 500).
If I set the PAL TV as primary monitor, Mplayer refuses to launch any movies
what so ever.
If I set the TV as “slave”, I can manually drag the movie over to the TV and
the movies plays fine, but I can’t set it to be full screen.
If I set the LCD as primary, and play a movie full screen, and while the
movie is playing changes the TV to be primary, Mplayer (I guess) changes the
TV output to NTSC…
It works fine as long the as the TV output is set to NTSC, the problem only
occurs when it is set to PAL (when is kinda frustrating when my TV is PAL 
Franck
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What is the problem? A few weekends ago I used my Radeon PCI to watch
video on my TV using Mplayer, and had no problems. It was NTSC though.
This doesn’t seem like a bug in SDL, rather a problem with your video
card or driver (SDL doesn’t know/care about PAL or NTSC).I have a Rage128 8MB (TiBook 500).
If I set the PAL TV as primary monitor, Mplayer refuses to launch any
movies
what so ever.If I set the TV as “slave”, I can manually drag the movie over to the
TV and
the movies plays fine, but I can’t set it to be full screen.If I set the LCD as primary, and play a movie full screen, and while
the
movie is playing changes the TV to be primary, Mplayer (I guess)
changes the
TV output to NTSC…It works fine as long the as the TV output is set to NTSC, the problem
only
occurs when it is set to PAL (when is kinda frustrating when my TV is
PAL
You might try playing with the -monitoraspect and -screenw, -screenh
options. Mplayer might be trying to use a resolution that PAL doesn’t
support, so it fails rather than picking another resolution. When I was
using it, I set the aspect to 1.5 to get it to use the 720x480 instead
of 640x480 (in fullscreen mode).On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 03:01 PM, sdl-request at libsdl.org wrote:
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:08:47 +0100
Subject: Re: Subject: [SDL] Output to PAL TV problem (Mac OS X)
From: Franck Roussel Rasmussen
To:
Reply-To: sdl at libsdl.org