On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: >>> First off, this has probably been discussed before, but I can't find it >>> on google. I've spent the last several hours searching for the answer >>> to this and I can't find it. >>> >> [...] >>> So far I am >>> very happy with 3.2.1-r2 on my PC except for one thing: xv doesn't seem >>> to work anymore. On my old kernel, and indeed every kernel I've run on >>> this computer since 2005 xv has worked. I haven't changed any hardware >>> in this computer recently or ever. When I run mplayer I see this in the >>> output: >>> >>> [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available. >>> [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read >>> [VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv! >>> [VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. >>> [VO_XV] Try -vo x11. >>> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. >>> >>> >>> I kept reading about xvinfo included in XFree86 distribution. I use >>> xorg-x11. I found out that xvinfo can be emerged. I did so and it said >>> this: >>> >>> X-Video Extension version 2.2 >>> screen #0 >>> no adaptors present >>> >>> >>> which shouldn't be right because I've been using xv with mplayer for >>> years. I assumed then that it was a module problem somewhere. I hadn't >>> run a qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ recently so I did and remerged all the >>> packages there. >>> >>> My video card info from lspci -v: >>> >>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL >>> Integrated Graphics Controller (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) >>> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 5647 >> [...] >>> I can successfully modprobe the i915 module. Everything that can be is >>> built with the xv USE flag on. Is there anything else I >>> need to do to get my xv to work with mplayer? >>> >> >> Can you run mplayer with -vo gl? >> Do other video players have the same problem, e.g. VLC? >> >> Regards, >> Florian Philipp >> > > mplayer -vo gl runs fine, as long as I don't maximize it, like I usually > do. xine is the same. vlc seems to work well, but I prefer mplayer. > It's what I've always used, and would like it back if I can figure this > out...
Which series video card are you using? (nVidia, ATI, Intel...) Which driver? -- :wq
