On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:24:32 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > I'm in the last stages of migrating my (mostly legacy) stuff to a newer > laptop and cannot get mplayer to work as well as I had hoped on debian > lenny. > > On my previous system with an old ATI Mach64, I specified the XVideo > output driver and was getting pretty decent results. > > On the new system, with a fairly current nvidia video card, and the > default ‘nv’ free driver, only the sound appears to work when I stream > TV news channels or play .flv videos.
You may try with the proprietary "nvidia" driver or test with another video player. (...) > In any event, I ran that same xvinfo command on the old laptop and got > about two screenfuls of output for my trouble, one line accurately > naming my video card somewhere near the top, followed by many lines of > cryptic output. > > Is this telling me is that the XVideo extension on the new machine is > not enabled? You can check it: stt008:~# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation > I have among other things a Ubuntu 10.10 system on the same laptop and > with the proprietary ‘nvidia’ driver, the xvinfo command produces output > similar to what I am getting on my former machine. > > Hoping that this might be a simple case of debian ’lenny’ being too old > for my hardware and that I only needed to be patient and the problem > would take care of itself, I proceeded to boot into debian ‘squeeze’, > but unfortunately, I got the exact same results as on lenny: no video > with ‘xv’, very choppy sound with ‘sdl’, and xvinfo outputs the same > three messages as above. Hum... I get output from two lenny systems running "nv" and "nvidia" so the problem must be in other place :-? > I am not really keen on installing the ‘nvidia’ driver on the debian > systems, but on the other hand, it would be nice to be able to take a > quick look at the news and such without having to reboot.. The closed source driver for nvidia works quite well under my lenny systems, I have no complaints (easy to install and very stable). I only have it installed on systems where I need additional capabilities that "nv" driver cannot provide. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.01.14.14.11...@gmail.com
