Bug#422168: xserver-xorg-core: xv compresses movies to half of the screen

[Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de>]

On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:03:06 +0200, Brice Goglin  
<Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Jiří Paleček wrote:
> > On Fri, 04 May 2007 08:39:30 +0200, Brice Goglin
> > <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Jiri Palecek wrote:
> > > > Package: xserver-xorg-core
> > > > Version: 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-3
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > when I play movies through xv, either in kaffeine or mplayer, they are
> > > > compressed
> > > > to the left half of the viewport, either fullscreen or window.
> > > > Interesting thing is,
> > > > that restarting X sometimes solves the problem.
>
> Do you know when this problem started to occur ? After upgrading
> xserver-xorg-core to 1.3 ? Does the problem go away if you downgrade to
> 1.1 in Etch ? Or  if you downgrade xserver-xorg-video-ati to 6.6.3 (in
> testing) or upgrade to 6.6.193 (in experimental) ?

I don't really know, but IIRC, it was after upgrading -core to 1.3. I'm not
sure about downgrading to 1.1, but -video-ati 6.6.193 did not solve the  
problem.

Regards
    Jiri Palecek