Re: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade
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?
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