[Phonon MPlayer] The correct vo device on windows?

[Tanguy Krotoff]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Ben Lau <xbenlau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seem that it should use directx as video out device on windows xp. I
> have patched the phonon mplayer backend to check with WindowsVersion
> to choose the correct vo device. Then it is working!  However, as I
> don't have any Vista machine , I can not check is it work on Vista
> too.

Thanks for the patch. The direct3d video output driver is pretty new
inside MPlayer, it was done in order to solve compatibility problems
with Aero. If I remember well (I had a winXP in the past), it should
work under this OS. It uses Direct3D 9 which is available under
Windows XP.

I will contact the developer behind direct3d driver about this.

There is no need for you to change the code and recompile. MPlayer
comes with a config file that you can edit:
mplayer.exe
mplayer/config

add
vo="directx"

This will overwrite the defaults settings and use the directx video
output driver

-- 
Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff at gmail.com>
+33 6 68 42 70 24