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Any suggestions what to test?
I got it to work only in vesa and x11 mode. Are there any better?
When using -vo sdl use -vm too for fullscreen.
-vo help lists all the compiled video modes.
I was really surprised by how many configuration options there are. Mplayer also works great for audio stream. The default cache settings are way too high for audio streams, but you could set it by -cache (number).
The simplest way I found to listen to Windows Media streams is to open .asx file in an editor and then copy the "mms://....." url into a term.
Something like this:
"mplayer -cache 125 mms://wmbcast........"
According the the man page mplayer is also capable of recording and converting streams into many different formats, I haven't played with it though.
I read that there are problems with Nvidia's drivers, I have a GeForce 2. Hope it works.
It seems to me that I can't really switch the sound modes, I'm trying -so foo but everything produces the same result? There is some problem, I think, the volume is too low, even when I got it at max.
mplayer -h, man mplayer, mplayer -ao help, mplayer -vo help should be enough to get started.
I got myself into bigger problems, I can't really make use of gl modes because I'm using the standard X server without Nvidia stuff. Anyway it is working now and I think I figured what should go where.
