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From: Indi on 1 Feb 2010 20:19 On 2010-01-31, Christian Weisgerber <naddy(a)mips.inka.de> wrote: > MZ <mark(a)nospam.void> wrote: > >> Is anybody using FreeBSD as a media player, where they decode and send >> video directly to a 2nd video card while leaving the terminal coming out >> of the other card? Perhaps using mplayer or something similar? No >> front end. No pause, rewind, etc. Just something command line that >> says something like "play movie.avi /dev/somecard" ? I suppose I'd be >> willing to install X11 for it, but I don't want to have to load up a GUI. > > Install X11 and run the X server on the second card only. > > You can then just run mplayer on the main console and point its X11 > output to DISPLAY=:0.0. > That or use one of the window managers that handles multiple monitors properly. Awesome, xmonad, dwm, wmii are all pretty good. I use wmii mostly nowadays, and most of the apps I prefer run in a terminal emulator (xfce4-terminal is my favorite). -- indi Google Groupers and X-posters are filtered. If you're not a troll or a spammer then you might want to stop posting like one.
From: CeDeROM on 8 Feb 2010 17:11
Hello! On Jan 28, 7:19 am, MZ <m...(a)nospam.void> wrote: > Is anybody using FreeBSD as a media player, where they decode and send > video directly to a 2nd video card while leaving the terminal coming out > of the other card? (...) Some time ago I have sone 3 screen configuration, where 2 screens were running on a first video card, and third screen was winning on a second card - all this with Xorg (+Xinerama). It is possible to do this with pure Xorg. What you want to do can be also accomplished by a framebuffer output using specific video device with xine/mplayer/vlc. This is really simple to set up, just remember to use some hardware acceleration video card for displaying movies (nowadays its almost each one of them will fit) - as I have used some old S3 the performance was really bad :-) Good luck! Tomek |