[Mplayer-users] xvideo mode plays back as green bars on linux

[Jason Jackson]

On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 06:38, Robert Simons wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, jacksonje wrote:
> 
> > Whenever I play back any video in mplayer on linux, using xv mode the video
> > outputs as a screen full of green bars or other similar garbage.  The audio
> > plays back fine and there are no errors on stdout.  This occurs with all
> > videos I've tried, which includes divx, mpeg and mpeg-2 formats.
> That's exactly what happened with my computer
> 
> > a savage4+ chipset
> The savage chip (or driver)  isn't able to do proper overlay in 24>=bit
> mode.
> I had to change default depth to 16bit.
> 
> Now it works fine.
> 
> Gruss Robert

Thank you very much, setting it to 16bit worked. Although it is very
curious that it works fine in freebsd 4.4 in 24 bit mode using the exact
same computer and xfree version.


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