[MPlayer-users] mplayer video suddenly gone

[Russell Behne]

On 7/24/08, Masaru Nomiya <nomiya at galaxy.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the Message;
>
>   Subject    : Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer video suddenly gone
>   Message-ID : <55ce96ab0807232302u4dba0625r6dcc361e7523919e at mail.gmail.com>
>   Date & Time: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:02:17 -0400
>
> "Russell Behne" <rwbehne1 at gmail.com> has written:
>
>> I ran the command as:
>>         mplayer -v drumhead.avi > avi.log
>> and attached the output to this post.
>
> Maybe, your log shows, mplayer players without any problems.
>
> But, I can't undertand this line;
>
>>>  using Xvideo port 68 for hw scaling
>
>> Also, be advised that I had tried removing and reinstalling the
>> mplayer package, but it made no difference.
>
> I'm suspecting, you've got another problem.

I think so too, but don't know how to find the problem.  Other players
have the same symptom, so it's something common to them all.  The
question is "What?".
I tried playing the .avi files in vlc media player, Kaffeine player,
et al.  So that tells me that whatever is happening, it's something
that is commonly needed in all players.  What could that be?

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Russ.