[vlc] Re: Linux framebuffer problems

[Jan Ekholm]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:

>
>Jan Ekholm wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Has anyone managed to get vlc running with the Linux framebuffer? I always
>>get this error:
>>
>>fb video output error: cannot get terminal mode (Invalid argument)
>>
>Did you load the framebuffer modules? e.g; modprobe vga16fb? And can you
>run fbset -s ?

Yes, although I use the VIA modules, but loaded they are. Other FB apps
work nicely.

>>Nothing shows up and vlc then tries other output devices unless told to
>>not do it with --vout fb,none. Has anyone got it working? The only thing I
>>found on the net was this thread:
>>
>>
>>
>did you try --fbdev=/dev/fb0 ???

Yup, although /dev/fb0 is the default. Nevertheless, I tried it too.

However, it seems the framebuffer isn't the way to go today, it seems to
be far too much work. Even getting vlc to actually show an image for
anything non-trivial is extremely hard. Yes, I still can't get anything to
actually show up when using DVB. :)

-- 

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        - "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose."
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