[ug-bosug] XV video output issues

[Anil Gulecha]

On 7/2/07, Jürgen Keil <jk at tools.de> wrote:
> > 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.
>
Yes, the same was said on IRC, but I dont have an ATI card. That was
the reason I submitted my bug report(6572818).

I'll try the workaround though.

Anil