On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:52:47AM +1200, Tim Wright wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: > > > > > I'm having issues getting movies to play on my laptop... mpeg's, avi's > > > and dvd's all play sound but no picture, the picture shows just a green > > > screen. This happens in ogle, vlc, mplayer and aviplay.
[...] > Thanks for your help Tim, I changed my XF86Config-4 to default colour depth > of 16bit and all movies work fine now. My guess: This is a Xv/Xshm driver issue. 1. make sure you load the Xv driver in XF86Config-4 (presumably your video card is supported) 2. make sure your player uses it (e.g. xine defaults to the last one, you have to specify the new one, first time) 3. I got this also on my laptop after a hibernation (to disk) eiteh the player does not reinitialize Xv properly or the BIOS does not save/restore the video state as it should. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
