On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:08:58 -1000 Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> dijo: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:41:59PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I have installed VLC on my new installation of testing amd64. I > > installed it from Synaptic. > > > > It runs fine, but the display is scrunched to the left one-quarter of > > the screen. Height is normal, though. Makes actors look really, really > > skinny. > > > > It happens with every file type I have thrown at it, include commercial > > DVDs, so it's not a problem with a certain kind of media. It also > > continues scrunched up if I run it full screen. > > > > Totem works normally. In fact, I prefer Totem; I use VLC usually only > > when a movie has subtitles. I have a hard time getting Totem to display > > subtitles, but VLC just does it automatically. > > > > I have looked in all the settings and configurations and can't find > > anything that appears wrong. > > > > Most recently I used it on Jaunty, where it worked fine. I replaced the > > ~/.vlc folder with the one from Jaunty, but it changed nothing. > > > > Google hasn't offered any help so far. I'm stumped. Anyone have any > > suggestions? > > I had this problem. Scrunched video, with loss of color. > Posted about it on the VLC forum. > > The solution at the time was to delete my ~/.vlc > directory. > > Now the vlc config files are in ~/config/vlc, and I have the same > problem after some period of proper display. (Did I upgrade > by accident?) > > Deleting these new config files and restarting VLC doesn't help. > > My error message is: > > swScaler: Palette is not supported as output pixel format > [00000507] swscale scale error: could not init SwScaler > and/or allocate memory > > I just checked on the forum: closed, due to high traffic > associated with 1.0.0 release. > > Please post if you find a solution.
I also discovered that all the VideoLan web pages are down. Most annoying. I forgot to say that my version is 1.0.2 Goldeneye. And thanks very much for posting that. Even if you don't have a solution, at least I know it's not my fault and I can quit poking at it. It's good to know I am not alone. Luckily I am not in a rush. I'll just wait until the VideoLan pages are back and then watch the wiki and forums. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
