I wrote:
I did not try reinstalling RH7.3, but got it right anyway, although only with
mplayer.
Well, this is incorrect. This is what happens when you leave a message a
little too long in the drafts folder.
I did install a RedHat 7.3 partition, which was important in discovering what
software
I did not try reinstalling RH7.3, but got it right anyway, although only with
mplayer.
The problem (for future reference, for google searches):
I installed xine, videolan::client (vlc), ogle and mplayer, all from
freshrpms.net, all for RedHat 8.0. All dependency problems where solved.
However,
On Friday 08 November 2002 18:51, guy keren wrote:
mplayer has an option that specifies how it will send images (the '-vo'
option). you can run it and tell it to use something other then 'xv', and
see if the problem goes away.
I tried that at first. BTW, mplayer is the only one that had a
it.
-Original Message-
From: Arie Folger [mailto:afolger;ymail.yu.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:25 PM
To: Oleg Kobets
Cc: Linux-IL mailing list
Subject: Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen
On Friday 08 November 2002 11:05, you wrote (off list):
hmm, i never tried rh8
OK, after having decided that RH8.0's xv extensions are the probable source of
trouble, I moved my /usr/local partition's content to /usr/local on the /usr
partition, and installed a barebones RH7.3 on the freed partition (1GB).
Xine now plays the dvds beautifully. Of course, dual booting is
On Friday 08 November 2002 11:05, you wrote (off list):
hmm, i never tried rh8, i never use .0 products (too buggy).
do you really have to use RedHat ? Use Gentoo, mplayer works beautiful.
Flamer ;-).
Seriously, though, I'd love to try Gentoo, but I am no longer on a T1, just
dial up (hope I
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Arie Folger wrote:
OK, after having decided that RH8.0's xv extensions are the probable source of
trouble, I moved my /usr/local partition's content to /usr/local on the /usr
partition, and installed a barebones RH7.3 on the freed partition (1GB).
Xine now plays the
I can now confirm that the dvd playing softwares are the troublemakers; I just
popped in another disc, and the results are the same: instead of a normal
image, I see a split screen with two copies of the same half image.
I will try to install a minimal RH7.3 on a spare partition (well, the
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 12:26, Arie Folger wrote:
I can now confirm that the dvd playing softwares are the troublemakers; I
just popped in another disc, and the results are the same: instead of a
normal image, I see a split screen with two copies of the same half image.
I will try to
I found the culprit: the XV video output driver. Only mplayer has an output
driver (the X11 output video driver) that gives me a proper picture.
Problem: what can I do to make xine, ogle and vlc work?
More pressing problem: see the following error message from mplayer, and
you'll understand
gpu.
Oleg.
- Original Message -
From: Arie Folger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Oleg Kobets [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Martin Polley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Linux IL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen
I found the culprit
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 16:26, Oleg Kobets wrote:
Check permissions on /dev/dsp for no sound problem.
That is a misleading error message. Since the selected video_out device is
incompatible with this codec, there is no stream, and thus no sound. I
thought this would be obvious, sorry.
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 16:26, Oleg Kobets wrote:
Other then that, what graphics card do you use ? If it's ATI like me,
compile XVidix and it will work superbly, or use good nvidia drivers which
supposely work too with xv.
Now it dawns on me, xvidix is for ati cards only, not for my
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From: Arie Folger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Linux-IL mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen
Hi,
I installed ogle and videolan client, and both suffer from the same
illnes: I
see only half the image, and that half
[mailto:gwizard;clean-mail.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:15 AM
To: Arie Folger
Cc: Linux IL
Subject: Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen
Just 2 words for ya, USE MPLAYER.
It has all you could ever want, little buggy yes, but works ok
nevertheless.
You can get it from www.mplayer.hu
On Thursday 31 October 2002 03:43, Martin Polley wrote:
I've heard good things about Xine, too. (The pronunciation doesn't sound
good in Hebrew though...)
Since I posted, I tried Xine as well, and same result. I am gonna look for a
neighbour to test the physical media.
I tried downloading
, 2002 6:00 PM
To: Martin Polley; Oleg Kobets
Cc: Linux IL
Subject: Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen
On Thursday 31 October 2002 03:43, Martin Polley wrote:
I've heard good things about Xine, too. (The pronunciation doesn't
sound good in Hebrew though...)
Since I posted, I tried
Kobets
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Linux IL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:03 PM
Subject: RE: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen
You can get mplayer RPMs (none specifically for RH8.0 or in Rawhide, but
Mandrake or Freshrpms versions may work):
http://rpmfind.net/linux
- Original Message -
From: Martin Polley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Arie Folger [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Oleg Kobets
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Linux IL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:03 PM
Subject: RE: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen
You can get mplayer RPMs (none
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 10:43, Martin Polley wrote:
I've heard good things about Xine, too. (The pronunciation doesn't
sound
good in Hebrew though...)
IIRC, the former Xine page showed that the recommended pronunciation was
kseen. But if you're worried about xine, how about the English
Quoting David Howard, from the post of Thu, 31 Oct:
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 10:43, Martin Polley wrote:
I've heard good things about Xine, too. (The pronunciation doesn't
sound
good in Hebrew though...)
IIRC, the former Xine page showed that the recommended pronunciation was
kseen.
I
Hi,
I installed ogle and videolan client, and both suffer from the same illnes: I
see only half the image, and that half is kind of displayed twice.
I am using RH8.0, and the following relevant packages are installed:
aalib-1.4rc4-fr2.1
alsa-lib-0.9.0rc3
libdvdcss-1.2.3-fr1
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