Re: Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally

2008-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/08 05:39, John Talbut wrote: [snip] > > I was trying to run mplayer from the GUI. When I ran it from the > command line I got a lot of information. What I have concluded up to > now is that the diagonally split screen is to do with interlac

Re: Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally

2008-04-13 Thread John Talbut
> >>> When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something > like 4 > >>> frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if > one > >>> frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the next into > >>> the bottom right. > >>> > >>> Any ideas about wha

Re: Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally

2008-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/08 08:58, John Talbut wrote: >>On 04/11/08 07:34, John Talbut wrote: >>> When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something like 4 >>> frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if one >>> frame is pasted in

Re: Re: Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally

2008-04-11 Thread John Talbut
>On 04/11/08 07:34, John Talbut wrote: >> When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something like 4 >> frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if one >> frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the next into >> the bottom right. >> >> Any idea

Re: Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally

2008-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/08 07:34, John Talbut wrote: > When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something like 4 > frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if one > frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the nex

Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally

2008-04-11 Thread John Talbut
When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something like 4 frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if one frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the next into the bottom right. Any ideas about what is happening, how to diagnose it or how t