On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: >> First off, this has probably been discussed before, but I can't find it >> on google. I've spent the last several hours searching for the answer >> to this and I can't find it. >> > [...] >> So far I am >> very happy with 3.2.1-r2 on my PC except for one thing: xv doesn't seem >> to work anymore. On my old kernel, and indeed every kernel I've run on >> this computer since 2005 xv has worked. I haven't changed any hardware >> in this computer recently or ever. When I run mplayer I see this in the >> output: >> >> [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available. >> [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read >> [VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv! >> [VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. >> [VO_XV] Try -vo x11. >> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. >> >> >> I kept reading about xvinfo included in XFree86 distribution. I use >> xorg-x11. I found out that xvinfo can be emerged. I did so and it said >> this: >> >> X-Video Extension version 2.2 >> screen #0 >> no adaptors present >> >> >> which shouldn't be right because I've been using xv with mplayer for >> years. I assumed then that it was a module problem somewhere. I hadn't >> run a qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ recently so I did and remerged all the >> packages there. >> >> My video card info from lspci -v: >> >> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL >> Integrated Graphics Controller (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) >> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 5647 > [...] >> I can successfully modprobe the i915 module. Everything that can be is >> built with the xv USE flag on. Is there anything else I >> need to do to get my xv to work with mplayer? >> > > Can you run mplayer with -vo gl? > Do other video players have the same problem, e.g. VLC? > > Regards, > Florian Philipp >
mplayer -vo gl runs fine, as long as I don't maximize it, like I usually do. xine is the same. vlc seems to work well, but I prefer mplayer. It's what I've always used, and would like it back if I can figure this out...
