[Phonon MPlayer] The correct vo device on windows?

[Tanguy Krotoff]

I've just commited the patch:

if (MPlayerProcess::getMPlayerVersion() > 28121) {
		if (QSysInfo::WindowsVersion >= QSysInfo::WV_VISTA) {
			args << "-vo";
			args << "direct3d";
		}
	}
}

By default under Windows, MPlayer uses the directx driver
== QSysInfo::WV_VISTA is not enough, >= QSysInfo::WV_VISTA is better
and possible thanks to Qt way to arrange enums

Thx

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Ben Lau <xbenlau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for reply
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The Direct3D 9 backend do not work well. I have tested with few XP
> machines. All of them have installed DirectX 9 , but not all work .
> Some of them can not play video at all , and some of them can not show
> video in correct position... that is why I seek for phonon mplayer
> backend.
>
>>
>> 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"
>
> great! thx.
>
>> 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
>>
>



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