[MPlayer-users] Problems when using x.org X server

[JLB]

No, but I couldn't even get X.org to COMPILE. (XFree86 4.4 compiled fine
out of the box.) IMHO, X.org is a worthless piece of cow-dung.

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-2] Micha³ Kosmulski wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:14:07 +0200
> From: "[ISO-8859-2] Micha³ Kosmulski" <M.Kosmulski at elka.pw.edu.pl>
> Reply-To: "MPlayer usage questions, features,  bugreports"
>     <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> Subject: [MPlayer-users] Problems when using x.org X server
>
> After I switched to the X.org X server 6.7.0 from XFree86 4.3.0, I
> started experiencing a lot of MPlayer crashes. I get crashes (by
> segfault) for almost all formats, ranging from simple mpg movies to
> divX. Sometimes mplayer crashes right after playback starts and
> sometimes the movie does start playing but right-clicking the movie
> window in order to bring up the context menu causes a crash in all
> cases. I have an nvidia card (using nvidia's proprietary drivers), X.org
>   X server 6.7.0, linux kernel 2.6.7-ck1 (but it was the same with
> vanilla 2.6.5). The movies that now cause crashed played without any
> problems before switching to X.org. In mplayer, I use xv as video driver
> and arts driver for sound.
> Has anyone experienced similar behavior with X.org ?
> Michal
>
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