I recently replaced a RH9 and older verion of Freevo with a Gentoo build and the latest Freevo (with absolutely everything installed via emerge). Everything was compiled, so everything is up-to-date.
The hardware is identical, and primarily consists of a Celeron 1.1, 256Mb RAM and a Nvidia GeForce 440MX with 64Mb RAM. I should also note that Freevo is started from the command line, not from within X itself. Whilst it was out of date, Freevo worked perfectly before the reload.
Freevo will now run quite happliy boot and play MP3's and image slideshows, but when I try to view a video (any video, any codec) I get a black screen for several seconds then get dumped back to the Freevo menu. If I use mplayer from the command line it works fine and plays the specified movie file (the same file that fails from within Freevo).
When I exit Freevo I see messages indicating that errors have been placed in the mplayer logs, as follows:
mplayer_stdout.log looks good until the line: "vo: x11 uninit called but x11 not inited.." and then it exits.
mplayer_stderr.log has this:
"can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory."
"can't open input config '/root/.mplayer/input.conf': No such file or directory."
"vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!"
"Error opening/initialising the selected video_out (-vo) device."
If I change Freevo to use "x11" instead of "fbdev" as its display mode, I get an additonal Freevo error saying:
"Warning: display is set to x11, but the environment has no DISPLAY set. Setting display to fbdev."
mplayer_stderr.log no longer has the lines complaining about the video_out device.
Note that XFree86 is installed, as is the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. KDE and Gnome are NOT installed. I believe the Nvidia drivers are installed correctly (I get the Nvidia logo when I do a "startx", which runs just fine). Running Freevo from inside X does not fix the problem.
I am probably missing something simple, but stuffed if I know what it is. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Murray.
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