Re: Xine/Mplayer can't use xv

[Tom Chance <lists@tomchance.org.uk>]

On Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 13:49, Albert Dengg wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:22:33PM +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've got an install of Debian sid (unstable) with Xfree 4.3.0.1, an
> > nvidia card and the latest builds of mplayer and xine. Neither can use
> > the "xv" extension. When I try, I get the following errors:
>
> ...
>
> > Xlib:  extension "SHAPE" missing on display ":0.0".
> > Xlib:  extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".
> > main: video driver <xv> failed
>
> Hi
> do you use the nv or the nvidia driver?
> from my expirience the nv driver does not provide any hw accelleration,
> including no opengl&xv....
> (could have changed, i did try with 4.2.1 some time ago...)

Nvidia. GL works fine.

Regards,
Tom