Brian J. Murrell wrote:
1) using the framebuffer output modes the picture was dark, and the geometry did not fill the screen properly. No amount of fiddling with fb.modes values could get it to. Even if I could, the darkness of the picture was just unacceptable. I don't know why the picture was so dark. 2) Using the XFree86 driver yeilds TV-Out but unaccelerated so no hardware scaling, etc.
Acxtrually, you can use syncfb with Xfree86. Then syncfb doesn't touch the resolution / framerate, but just flips images from offscreen memory at vsync, but with full scaling and uyv conversion acceleration. Maybe there is something about how syncfb is used in mplayer that prevents this mode of operation?
-- -Torgeir
