Re: video very bad since a day or two

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Uwe Dippel wrote:

> Video was great here, until a day or two back.
> I installed Mplayer (from the known resources) as debian package.
>
> The first day it worked well; since yesterday it freezes whatever I do.
> So I uninstalled it. But now even xine is almost unable to play anything;
> just sound, a bad / blue screen and 100% usage of memory; with crashes
> (of xine) at times. Nor does it play DVD (crashes outright).
> Before everything had been as fine as you may expect on a 1.4 GHz machine
> with 256 MB RAM.
>
>  
Sounds like some sort of video playing library has been replaced by 
Mplayer, that is hosing your playback ability.

I don't know what I'm talking about, but you might try running "strace 
xine", and see if that output gives you any clues. If you see any 
library names, you might try reinstalling them from the official Debian 
repositories.

--
Kent

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