Interesting. Totem was the only video player I had before.
I installed mplayer. When I open a video with mplayer (right click > open
with) it says "Error opening/initializing the selected video_output (-vo)
device."
However, if I type "mplayer video.wmv" the screen flashes blue (as in no
video signal), then comes back with the movie playing perfectly.
On 7/6/07, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jared Ubelhor wrote:
> It's just when watching video. mpegs, wmv, avi, and so on. Basically
> anything that is played through Totem.
> 3D rendered stuff looks normal.
>
> I have an ATI Radeon X1600XT
>
> I know this seems to be a common issue on the Ubunutu forums, I just
didn't
> find any solutions to the issue during my search.
It definitely sounds like a bug in the fglrx Xvideo implementation.
You could try using mplayer's x11 output driver instead of Xvideo.
To try it just once, type this in a shell.
$ mplayer -vo x11 some-movie.avi
If that works, you can make it permanent. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and
add this line in the video device section.
Option "VideoOverlay" "off"
The video device section is a section of type "Device" that has a line
saying "Driver fglrx". So it'll look like this.
...
Section "Device"
....
Driver "fglrx"
...
Option "VideoOverlay" "off" (You'll add this line.)
EndSection
...
That adds a lot of overhead to video playback, so it won't work with a
slow CPU. Also, I've noticed audio and video getting out of sync when
I use the x11 driver.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
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