[MPlayer-users] mplayer video suddenly gone

Fri Jul 25 00:49:51 CEST 2008

On Friday, 25 July 2008 at 00:46, Russell Behne wrote:
> On 7/24/08, RC <cooleyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:49:26 -0400
> > "Russell Behne" <rwbehne1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> When I try to watch any video in mplayer sound works just fine but the
> >> screen is black - no picture.  I tried whatever other players I have,
> >> they either can't play an .avi file or get the same black screen as in
> >> mplayer.
> >
> > That suggests a problem with Xv.  You can probably still play videos
> > using -vo x11, gl, sdl, vidix, etc.
> >
> > Without knowing more about your system, I can only suggest powering off
> > your machine, and unplugging it for an hour just to be sure...  Then
> > trying again.
> 
> You know, I was _really_ hesitant to try this suggestion, because
> rebooting sounds too much like a Micro$oft solution.  But damn if it
> didn't work!!!  I rebooted and just as suddenly as it disappeared, the
> video is back working now.  Why? Who knows!! I sure don't.

Certain video chip/driver combinations seem to have trouble with XVideo
after hibernate/resume cycle as well as in other conditions. Your case
looks like one of those.

Regards,
R.

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