sevensharp11 wrote:When I use the mplayer that is on my desktop, with the black ps3 as it's logo, I get fullscreen smooth playback of some 720p MKV files, but they are from the animated show 'the life and times of tim' which is southpark style animation so probably isn't too taxing. All other avi's play great so thanks for that. However when I fullscreen it it scrambles the desktop abit, graphics on the toolbars go missing and then come back somewhat if i hover the mouse over them.
Right - that's exactly what's going to happen. The mplayer-ps3 code writes directly to the screen, ignoring X Windows requests. The launching script tries to work around this by opening up a big window, but there will always be some issues.
For mplayer-ps3, you're really supposed to run it from a text mode, not a graphics mode. Nothing bad will happen if you run it from a graphics mode - just the symptoms you're describing.
sevensharp11 wrote:The Gnome Mplayer, as I said before, has the same issues as otakusupreme, fullscreen doesn't go fullscreen, its the same size, but centered in the middle of the screen, with a screenshot in the background of whatever was on screen when I clicked fullscreen.
That's because it appears to be using the original X11 video driver, not the PS3 specific driver. If I understand the installation instructions correctly, you configure gnome-mplayer by using
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/usr/bin/mplayer
I could be wrong, but the way I interpret this command, you're calling mplayer using the default video driver, not the PS3 specific one. That would be something like
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/usr/bin/mplayer -vo ps3
- which, based on its inability to handle an X Windows display, might lock-up your system.
sevensharp11 wrote: If anyone knows of any fixes though, it would be much appreciated!
Nope - probably no fixes to either of these issues. As they say - this is behavior by design.
Cheers,
Paul