[MPlayer-users] Problem with XV and SDL vo driver

[Martin Collins]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:47:31 +0100
Kostko <kostko at jweb-network.net> wrote:

> Everything worked unitl 2 days ago. I don't
> know what had changed actualy, but now if i use XV or SDL driver
> with mplayer, i only get a blue square instead of the picture. I
> tried recompiling mplayer, but that didn't help. What should i do ?

It sounds like something (xawtv?) has changed your colorkey.
If you are using a Matrox video card try this as root:
 echo 'color_key_rgb 1 1 254' > /proc/mgavideo/mga0/bes

Martin