On Monday 06 October 2003 11:21, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Up to very recently, I could watch vcd movies on my box using xine video > player with Xv as the video driver. However, I came to discover yesterday > that Xv video driver had become inoperative after either upgrading xfree86 > from version 4.1.0 to 4.2.1 using the deb package or installation of > mplayer 0.9 from the source tarball. > > I'm not pretty sure which of the two packages/applications is the culprit > as I installed both of them more or less on the same day but somehow I'm > convinced it must be xfree86 since mplayer too does not show any pictures > (only a blue window screen) with the Xv video driver.
That's a problem with X itself. Most likely, the currently used graphics driver has a limited or broken implementation of the Xv extensions. What graphics driver are you using (what video card)? Ist the XVideo extension listed in xdpyinfo? -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
