I'm trying to get the mplayer plugin working. Am I correct - mplayer uses the mpegpes vo option to feed the played stream into a PES stream, which VDR then plays??
No, you are not. Mplayer encodes the stream to MPEG-1 and sends it to the video output of DVB-card. Your card doesn't have such a thing.
Oh. Fair enough.
I have modified my mplayer.sh to use the X output rather than mpegpes, so a mplayer window opens up to play the .avi file or whatever. But a weird problem occurs.
-If xine is running (I use the xine player as my card has no mpeg2 decode) the mplayer window launches full screen, but the video is in a smaller window with huge black borders
-If xine isn't running, and VDR is using skincurses, the mplayer window opens up fullscreen with full screen video fine.
Any ideas on this one?