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@@ -222,6 +222,12 @@ A: Try running MPlayer on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't
Q: I have problems with icewm and fullscreen xv mode..
A: Known problem, icewm sucks.
+Q: But it works with avifile !
+A: So what?
+
+Q: Then avifile is better !
+A: Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :)
+
Q: I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001 !
A: You have old version of codecs.conf at ~/.mplayer/. Upgrade it from DOCS/
@@ -230,13 +236,12 @@ Q: After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing
A: The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time
until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter.
-Q: But it works with avifile !
-A: So what?
-
-Q: Then avifile is better !
-A: Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :)
-
Q: Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow
down the playing! I know it's unlikely...
A: After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace #undef FAST_OSD with
#define FAST_OSD . Then recompile.
+
+Q: The OSD is flickering!
+A: You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv you can change
+ the number of buffers in libvo/vo_xv.c :
+ Increase #define NUM_BUFFERS 1