[MPlayer-users] Video garbled on G400 machine

[Chris Carlen]

Hi:

Suse 8.1 on Pentium3 Asus P3BF with Matrox G400 video,

Suse's mplayer replaced with mplayer 0.90pre10-3.2 compiled from source.

When I try to play a movie, either Quicktime or Windows media, mplayer 
doesn't make a little window showing the movie, but instead a bunch of 
"noise" appears as stripes of changing pixels of colors, in the top 10% 
of the screen.

However, on a different machine with Suse 8.1 and mplayer 0.90pre10-3.2 
compiled from source, mplayer works fine.  Thus, I suspect a problem 
with the G400 and video config on the P3 machine, but I don't know how 
to fix it.

I tried a bunch of different options for the G400, but nothing worked so 
far.

I also tried compiling the more recent 0.90rc4 version on the problem 
machine, but it has the same problem.

Thanks for assistance.


Good day!


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Christopher R. Carlen
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Suse 8.1 Linux 2.4.19