Re: video very bad since a day or two
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:03:00 -0500, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> Uwe Dippel wrote:
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> >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 Sounds like some sort of video playing library has been replaced by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.
>
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> Kent
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I would apt-get remove all packages related to the problem, including
xine and mplayer. Then install one or the other and post the results
here. If it doesn't work, the BTS deserves a new entry.
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