On 2011-01-14 09:24 +0100, 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.
The problem is that a) fairly current hardware may generally not work very well with a relatively old system (Lenny's kernel and the nv driver are from mid-2008), and b) the nv driver does not support the XVideo extension on GeForce 8 and newer. > 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. Which video driver do you use? On Squeeze, nouveau is the default, and it does support XVideo here: ,---- | % xvinfo | X-Video Extension version 2.2 | screen #0 | Adaptor #0: "Nouveau GeForce 8/9 Textured Video" | [...] `---- And what's your graphics card? Use "lspci -k" to also show its kernel drivers, if any. Sven -- 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/87hbdbzcys....@turtle.gmx.de
