Experiment report: On a GigE I am setting up, VLC "played" videos with normal sound, but with a black picture. The window adjusted to the video’s aspect ratio, but remained black. After some experimenting, I think I have localized the cause: VLC does this with certain graphic cards. I don’t know the reason for this behaviour, and I couldn’t find any clues on the web, so here are the details of what I did:
The GigE has a 450MHz processor from a Cube and 1.1 GB RAM. VLC is version 0.9.10 and the OS is 10.4.11. With an ATY Rage 128 Pro card (AGP) inside and an Apple 15" display connected to its ADC port, VLC played a .m4v video with a black window. QuickTime played the same video normally on the same screen. I tried other display settings with no success: the same result for resolution 640x480 and/or 256 colors -- except that with 256 colors, the window is not black but blue. With a different (better) AGP card inside, like a Radeon, VLC played the same video normally. Then I put an ATI R7000 64M DDR PCI card into the same GigE and connected another monitor to its VGA port. VLC plays normally on that one. Then I put the ATY Rage 128 Pro card back in, while keeping the PCI card. The monitors were set up as side-by-side displays. When, during playback, I moved VLC’s video window to the other monitor, it changed from black to playing or vice versa. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
