Re: Radeon xvideo bug
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 22:32, csj wrote:
> I've experienced the following problem since I first installed my Radeon
> VE card under XFree86 4.X. The bug affects the playback of any video
> using the xvideo extension.
>
> When I play any video using any video player (e.g. xine, mplayer or vlc)
> and try to minimize the application, a freeze frame of the video appears
> and blocks the part of the screen where the video was running. If the
> video is running full screen the entire screen is blocked by the frozen
> frame. This doesn't occur if I use another video output method, as
> when running "xine-V xshm movie.avi" or "mplayer -vo x11 movie.mpg".
>
> Does anybody have a solution for this? Or is this a known bug?
Yes, it's a known driver bug which has been fixed in CVS. You can try
some of the various CVS packages posted here recently or
http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/README.Debian .
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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