[MPlayer-users] xv overlays stopped working... black screen only, no errors

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 15 July 2007 at 23:16, Juergen Botz wrote:
> Suddenly xv overlays have stopped working for me... when I run
> "mplayer -vo xv ..." the window just shows black, but mplayer
> gives no errors (and I get the sound of what I'm playing).
> 
> Everything looks normal, Xorg.0.log shows XVideo modules loading
> without errors, no other related messages in any logs, no errors
> from mplayer.  -vo x11 and -vo gl work fine.
> 
> This is with kernel A2.6.20-15 and xorg 7.2.  My video card is a
> Radeon 7500, and I'm using the Xorg radeon driver.  Everything
> worked normally a couple of weeks ago, and I don't know what
> could be different.  Anyone have any ideas what could be going
> on?

Something must've changed on your system. Maybe some update?

> I'm attaching mplayer output below...
> 
> :j
> 
> --------------
> $ mplayer -vo xv video.avi
> MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

Unofficial binary packages are NOT supported. Please retry with current
SVN snapshot.

Regards,
R.

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