On Mon, 6 May 2002, Fred Heitkamp wrote:
> I'm not sure this the right list for this but..
> I'm having a strange problem with some video players
> I have installed on my system.
> I have MPlayer, Xine, and Xmovie all installed. When
> I run every one of those I get sound and the player
> seems to be running fine, but there is no video in
> the window. Most of the time there is just a thin
> blue bar down the left side of the window. On Xmovie
> only, if I stop the movie a still picture (frame)
> appears. I tried installing a new version of X and
> recompiling some of the movie players but this has
> not helped. It seems the video stream is going into
> a bit bucket someplace. Does anyone have an idea
> of what could be happening?
>
Sounds like two problems. The blue bar is probably the color key
which shouldn't be visible. Also, it sounds like the overlay data
is being read from the wrong place.
Which graphics, which drivers?
Mark.
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