Mplayer on high resolutions Console stuck

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busyboy

Eventually I have configured my system to run mplayer on console with a higher resolution. I can now play videos on my text based console.

The problem is that once a movie/video is started, there is no way to shift virtual consoles using ALT+F1 through F9 and the screen remains stuck at the point where I pressed either to PAUSE or CTRL-C to quit the mplayer program. This only recovers with a reboot of the system and so far there is no key combination found to recover the system without rebooting.

Can someone please help me to recover from that? I have had a try to login from network to the system and then killing some apps like ttyv* and still it did not work whereas mplayer was not running.

Regards,
BB
 
Text based console can allow only caca and aa video output for mplayer.

You are probably having issues with VIDIX/SVGA. Those video outputs are really hacks.

Use X, for real hardware acceleration (if any).
 
I finally got it working without giving a system reset. Just installed jfbterm and whenever a console in video mode gets stuck, executing jfbterm will bring the screen in a normal mode.

Now the only problem is that if I exit my jfbterm, the screen goes blank again.

Any idea?

Regards,
Nasir
 
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