[ug-bosug] Re: XV video output issues

[Jürgen Keil]

> I recently installed b64a (the latest SXDE). I then installed mplayer
> from the blastwave repo I have on a DVD.
> 
> This used to work fine on b55 that I had installed earlier. But it was
> now crashing without reason. I asked around on IRC and someone
> suggesed I try a different output mode..
> 
> mplayer has the following options 1)XV 2)X11 3)openGL 4)Another openGL..
> 
> 3 and 4 are _very_ slow and not usable. X11 works and i can open and
> play videos, however fullscreen doesn't work. looks like the xv
> renderer was the only good option but it's broken now. 

This could be bug 6564910:
    Synopsis  	 "-B direct" binding to libXfont breaks Xv extension for ati/radeon driver
    http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6564910

This is supposed to be fixed in snv_68.


As a workaround, I'm running the Xorg server with direct binding disabled,
using the environment variable "LD_NODIRECT=1":

--- /usr/dt/config/Xservers~    2007-04-01 19:44:07.371221000 +0200
+++ /usr/dt/config/Xservers     2007-04-01 19:40:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -109,5 +109,5 @@
 # You can use kdmconfig to change which X server is run by this program


-   :0  Local local_uid at console root /usr/X11/bin/Xserver :0 -nobanner
+   :0  Local local_uid at console root /bin/env LD_NODIRECT=1 /usr/X11/bin/Xserver :0 -nobanner
 
 
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