[MPlayer-users] SDL pros

[Stefan Lange]

Alain Ledesma wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi again,
> 
> I have been using mplayer 0.90 and 0.91 compiled from sources for
> some months without problems. Two days ago I installed SDL libraries
> and recompiled mplayer. As far as I can see after some trials, there
> is no difference in using -vo xv and -vo sdl:x11 -forcexv, apart of
> changing res with the c key ¿What is the advantage of using sdl, if
> there is any?
> 

Subtitles are automatically placed into the black area of wider-than-4:3 
movies, so there's no need to use -vf expand
also using -ao sdl might give different results with buggy sound drivers

> Thanks.
> 
>