Title: mplayer setup Found this advice: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?&act=ST&f=25&t=7482 Subject: this can take a long time. rpms are faster consult DOCS/video.html Matrox G200/G4x0/G550: Compile and use mga_vid for Linux, on BSD use VIDIX. # Find the MTRR registers cat /proc/mtrr #on a Matrox G400 Dual Head with 8MB of ran reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xe1000000 (3600MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 reg02: base=0xe0800000 (3592MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 reg03: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 reg04: base=0xe1800000 (3608MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 -- or -- # on a Matrox G400 with 16MB memo reg00: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=9 reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1 # If last step showed you bad results, set MTRR manually /sbin/lspci -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G400 MAX/Dual Head 32Mb Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0 1 MB 0x100000 2 MB 0x200000 4 MB 0x400000 8 MB 0x800000 16 MB 0x1000000 32 MB 0x2000000 echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" > | /proc/mtrr # Xv setup /usr/X11R6/bin/xvinfo |grep -i id X-Video Extension version 2.2 depth 16, visualID 0x21 depth 16, visualID 0x22 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 id: 0x32315659 (YV12) guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 id: 0x30323449 (I420) guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 id: 0x59565955 (UYVY) guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 #check if MPlayer was compiled with 'xv' support. ./configure ########################################################## # Install mkdir /usr/lib/win32/ tar -xvpf w32codec-0.60.tar cp w32codec-0.60/* /usr/lib/win32/ # # Setup mplayer # cd MPlayer-0.90pre6 ./configure --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32 ./configure --enable-gui make make install cd .. cp /home/jstile/mplayer/fonts/iso-8859-1/arial-14/* /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/ cd skins tar_skins=`ls` for tar_skin in $tar_skins; do tar -xf $tar_skin skin=`echo $tar_skin |sed 's/\.tar//'` mv $skin /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/ done chmod 755 /usr/local/share/mplayer chmod 755 /usr/local/share/mplayer/font chmod 755 /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin chmod 644 /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/*/*