Bug#421418: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Can't play videos

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Christoph Burgmer wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Severity: normal
>
> My installation was changed from xserver-xorg-video-i810 to -intel lately.
> Since then I assume that I can't play videos / dvds anymore. Other parts
> work normally. A quick glimpse inside the Xorg log didn't give me any hints
> so I downgraded to the -i810 package again from testing.
> I will provide more system information and log output if I know where to
> look.
>
> Christoph
>   

There are some known XVideo problems, at least on i855 boards. Could you
try changing XV into something else in your video player? It might be
something like mplayer -vo x11?

Also, please send us the output of
     /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-core/script 3>&1

Brice