Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:41, kiosk wrote: On 28 Jun 2003 23:32:08 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip! Cheers and Beers and morphine for the pink haired queers! (g) Here I go hijacking a thread. This reminds me of of a man who could go on at great leangth with a spiel which went something like this: cheers and queers and heating engineers and bottles of beers and crocodile tears and all those wasted years ... and etc etc. I wonder, are you quoting? Ok, google may be my friend - believe me, I intend to do some googling on this - but I wonder what insight you may have to offer with regard to the excellent line above. Best wishes and ... Janet Blankfield The ideal love affair is one conducted by post. JBS Pink Hair = FemmeFatale Never heard that particular quote; I just started doing the Cheers'n'beers thing a few years ago (before I moved here and had to integrate the word 'cheers' into my vernacular)...as I used to state plainly Hey man hey... or just Peace and Blessings... ...but would love to see the entire quote at length! -- Thu Jul 10 14:49:59 EST 2003 14:49:59 up 3 days, 16:22, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.12, 0.10 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE? Yes. Yes, of course. Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 01 July 2003 09:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:04, Dennis Myers wrote: Did you get this fixed? Which player are you using. I have the same troubles with mplayer but aviplayer works fine. You can even sync to video and sound in configuration file, if you need to . HTH Nah - still ain't got it straight yet. Every video player - xine, aviplay, mplayer - they all have a wonderful bit of garbage running down the right-hand .5 cm of the video window. I'm still doing some mucking around with YANC - but ain't looking good. I guess I should have stuck to the old NVidia kernel drivers... Well, YMMV applies again. I have no problems using a Nvidia Gforce 2 DDR 64MB card and the new .run drivers from their web site. Except that I get a very checkerboard colorfull screen when I try to play a .avi file in mplayer. I am guessing configuration or a file I may be missing. None the less it appears that the NVidia drivers will function with .avi files. Continue the hunt? That's weird. I'm using an NVidia GeForce 2 32MB card with the 4363 drivers from NVidia without any trouble. I built them against kernel-2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk. .avi files play fine in mplayer. Do you have the most recent version of mplayer and all it's associated codecs? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:05, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: That's weird. I'm using an NVidia GeForce 2 32MB card with the 4363 drivers from NVidia without any trouble. I built them against kernel-2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk. .avi files play fine in mplayer. Do you have the most recent version of mplayer and all it's associated codecs? Yep - on all accounts. -- Wed Jul 2 18:10:00 EST 2003 18:10:00 up 7:30, 3 users, load average: 0.42, 0.40, 0.34 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT d-- s:- a+ C UL P+ L+++ E W++ N++ o-- K--- w--- O++ M+ V PS+++ PE Y++ PGP- t+++ 5+++ X+++ R+ tv b+++ DI+++ D++ G++ e+ h r+++ y+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Do you think there's a God? Well, SOMEbody's out to get me! -- Calvin and Hobbs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:05, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: That's weird. I'm using an NVidia GeForce 2 32MB card with the 4363 drivers from NVidia without any trouble. I built them against kernel-2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk. .avi files play fine in mplayer. Do you have the most recent version of mplayer and all it's associated codecs? Yep - on all accounts. Have you tried any of the other video renderers in the mplayer preferences? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
On Saturday 28 June 2003 08:32 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I've just found something rather strange in my system - I've updated the NVidia drivers about a week or so ago, and now, for whatever reason, every time I play a movie (AVI or whatever), on the right side of the screen of the movie, I get garbage - now this didn't happen when I was using the older NVidia driver - and I've mucked with yanc in trying to make sure that all my settings were correct and the likes, but the damn problem still persists... Now it ain't like I watch heaps of movies, but I do rip them on this machine, and sometimes like to have a view of what I've just ripped; it's late Saturday night, I'm tired, and I'm done mucking with it for the evening... Just wondering if anyone MIGHT have some bright ideas that I haven't tried - ya know, breath of fresh air kinda thing... Cheers and Beers and morphine for the pink haired queers! (g) Did you get this fixed? Which player are you using. I have the same troubles with mplayer but aviplayer works fine. You can even sync to video and sound in configuration file, if you need to . HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:04, Dennis Myers wrote: Did you get this fixed? Which player are you using. I have the same troubles with mplayer but aviplayer works fine. You can even sync to video and sound in configuration file, if you need to . HTH Nah - still ain't got it straight yet. Every video player - xine, aviplay, mplayer - they all have a wonderful bit of garbage running down the right-hand .5 cm of the video window. I'm still doing some mucking around with YANC - but ain't looking good. I guess I should have stuck to the old NVidia kernel drivers... -- Wed Jul 2 12:05:00 EST 2003 12:05:00 up 1:25, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT d-- s:- a+ C UL P+ L+++ E W++ N++ o-- K--- w--- O++ M+ V PS+++ PE Y++ PGP- t+++ 5+++ X+++ R+ tv b+++ DI+++ D++ G++ e+ h r+++ y+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Hobbes : What if the public doesn't like your work? Calvin : They are not supposed to like it. This is avant-garde stuff! I'm criticizing the low brows who can't appreciate great art like this! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
Stephen, I have the same problem with the Nvidia drivers. The only thing that works ok is xawtv capturing direct off the video capture card with the device called out as xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 Everthing else, EVERY other player gives me blue garbage or a smear on the screen. Well, that's not quite true. They are ok in full screen mode. The only fix I could find was to use the nv drivers. I would really like to figure this one out as well, cause I can't play Tux now. Linus On 28 Jun 2003 23:32:08 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just found something rather strange in my system - I've updated the NVidia drivers about a week or so ago, and now, for whatever reason, every time I play a movie (AVI or whatever), on the right side of the screen of the movie, I get garbage - now this didn't happen when I was using the older NVidia driver - and I've mucked with yanc in trying to make sure that all my settings were correct and the likes, but the damn problem still persists... Now it ain't like I watch heaps of movies, but I do rip them on this machine, and sometimes like to have a view of what I've just ripped; it's late Saturday night, I'm tired, and I'm done mucking with it for the evening... Just wondering if anyone MIGHT have some bright ideas that I haven't tried - ya know, breath of fresh air kinda thing... Cheers and Beers and morphine for the pink haired queers! (g) -- Sat Jun 28 23:30:01 EST 2003 23:30:01 up 3 days, 23:16, 4 users, load average: 1.23, 1.11, 1.03 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Arthur yawed wildly as his skin tried to jump one way and his skeleton the other, whilst his brain tried to work out which of his ears it most wanted to crawl out of. `Bet you weren't expecting to see me again,' said the monster, which Arthur couldn't help thinking was a strange remark for it to make, seeing as he had never met the creature before. He could tell that he hadn't met the creature before from the simple fact that he was able to sleep at nights. - Arthur discovering who had diverted him from going to a party. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 10:51, Linus Drouhard wrote: Stephen, I have the same problem with the Nvidia drivers. The only thing that works ok is xawtv capturing direct off the video capture card with the device called out as xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 Everthing else, EVERY other player gives me blue garbage or a smear on the screen. Well, that's not quite true. They are ok in full screen mode. The only fix I could find was to use the nv drivers. I would really like to figure this one out as well, cause I can't play Tux now. Linus Well, since it's been quiet, I've been playing around with the settings in YANC (what a great way to muck around with your XWindows settings for an NVidia card without hosing up the entire shebang!)(Highly recommended for those that have NVidia cards...seriously)...and I've managed to clean up the vid display a tad more - but now I'm lazy again, and don't want to reboot the box, so I'll keep tampering... PS: I wonder if this one setting would work - it's in my XF86Config-4 and the line reads: Module Option Make_squiggly_lines_in_video_playback = 1 (g) -- Mon Jun 30 21:45:01 EST 2003 21:45:01 up 5 days, 21:31, 3 users, load average: 1.01, 1.09, 1.08 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Nah. It's either an issue directly with the driver, or with the XWindows configuration...just trying to nail it down. That does seem to suggest that. Did you install the compiled nvidia vestion or the nvidia version of an rpm. The rpm version gives their nvidia splashscreen just before desktop wheras the compiled version does not. If the compiled version maybe something went wrong there. I have the rpm version on my M9.1 and it seems OK. I didn't have to do much to configure it beyond changin nv to nvidia. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:21, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Nah. It's either an issue directly with the driver, or with the XWindows configuration...just trying to nail it down. That does seem to suggest that. Did you install the compiled nvidia vestion or the nvidia version of an rpm. The rpm version gives their nvidia splashscreen just before desktop wheras the compiled version does not. If the compiled version maybe something went wrong there. I have the rpm version on my M9.1 and it seems OK. I didn't have to do much to configure it beyond changin nv to nvidia. John NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run is the driver I used (supposed to be the latest) - but using YANC to tune it a bit moreso than I did to the old version... -- Mon Jun 30 22:45:01 EST 2003 22:45:01 up 5 days, 22:31, 3 users, load average: 1.30, 1.19, 1.10 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil does proceed; It drains your purse, it burns your clothes, And makes a chimney of your nose. -- B. Waterhouse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
I've just found something rather strange in my system - I've updated the NVidia drivers about a week or so ago, and now, for whatever reason, every time I play a movie (AVI or whatever), on the right side of the screen of the movie, I get garbage - now this didn't happen when I was using the older NVidia driver - and I've mucked with yanc in trying to make sure that all my settings were correct and the likes, but the damn problem still persists... Now it ain't like I watch heaps of movies, but I do rip them on this machine, and sometimes like to have a view of what I've just ripped; it's late Saturday night, I'm tired, and I'm done mucking with it for the evening... Just wondering if anyone MIGHT have some bright ideas that I haven't tried - ya know, breath of fresh air kinda thing... Cheers and Beers and morphine for the pink haired queers! (g) -- Sat Jun 28 23:30:01 EST 2003 23:30:01 up 3 days, 23:16, 4 users, load average: 1.23, 1.11, 1.03 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Arthur yawed wildly as his skin tried to jump one way and his skeleton the other, whilst his brain tried to work out which of his ears it most wanted to crawl out of. `Bet you weren't expecting to see me again,' said the monster, which Arthur couldn't help thinking was a strange remark for it to make, seeing as he had never met the creature before. He could tell that he hadn't met the creature before from the simple fact that he was able to sleep at nights. - Arthur discovering who had diverted him from going to a party. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
