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?
onboard Intel 810e graphics adaptor.
xdpyinfo lists XVideo amongst 27 other extensions
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Alphonse Ogulla
Nairobi, Kenya
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