It turned out to be mplayer freezing due to a corrupt video stream (I tried viewing the stream on another machine without directfb and that one also froze). Thanks for the reply though, and sorry for the false alarm.
-Brian Ville Syrjälä wrote: >On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:14:55PM -0400, Brian Thompson wrote: > > >>We're using version 0.9.25 of directfb with mplayer to output a >>video stream to a Matrox G550 tv-out under linux. It's worked >>perfectly for the past few days but then the image froze around >>3am this morning. Killing mplayer causes the tv-out to blank out >>but then restarting mplayer just shows the previous frozen image >>again. Even rebooting the server gives the same result, same >>frozen image from 3am this morning. Any ideas/suggestions? >> >> > >Try pulling the power plug and leave it there for a few minutes. I've >never had a G550 go bad on me like that, but I have managed to confuse >my G400 on a few occasions. > > > _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
