[Mplayer-users] xvideo mode plays back as green bars on linux

[Robert Simons]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, jacksonje wrote:

> Whenever I play back any video in mplayer on linux, using xv mode the video
> outputs as a screen full of green bars or other similar garbage.  The audio
> plays back fine and there are no errors on stdout.  This occurs with all
> videos I've tried, which includes divx, mpeg and mpeg-2 formats.
That's exactly what happened with my computer

> a savage4+ chipset
The savage chip (or driver)  isn't able to do proper overlay in 24>=bit
mode.
I had to change default depth to 16bit.

Now it works fine.

Gruss Robert


_______________________________________________
Mplayer-users mailing list
Mplayer-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users