[MPlayer-users] No display on my avis, but others work fine

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 06:36:12PM -0800, brian at worldcontrol.com wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html &
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
> 
> I downloaded some DV from the Sony DXR-VX700 via firewire and the
> file plays fine with xdvplay and kino.
> 
> However, under mplayer (cvs Mon Nov  4 18:35:11 PST 2001), it
> displays a blank window while the audio plays fine.
> 
> I'm using gcc-3.0.1
> 
> Other avi's and mpegs play fine.
> 
> Any pointers?


Try 3.0 or, better, 2.95.3.  3.0.1 has some nasty problems on x86
hardware, and 3.0 is reportedly equally buggy on Sparc hardware.


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