[MPlayer-users] XVideo hang on Savage chipset

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:30:01AM +0200, DarkAveng wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> After updating to the latest CVS version, a problem has popped up with 
> my Savage card: "-vo xv" causes a hard system hang (I mean, I've got to 
> hard reset).
> The funny thing is, this is _not_ MPlayer's fault, at least not 
> completely. The XVideo implementation of the savage X driver is known to 
> have problems that cause a hang like the one I mentioned, though 
> MPlayer, unlike xine, had NEVER suffered from them up to 2 days ago. I 
> do therefore guess that this must be related to some recent changes in 
> libvo. It must be noted, however, that even using vo_xv.c from pre5 
> (which worked flawlessly) does NOT solve the problem.
> So, basically, my XVideo setup has not changed, and it always had worked 
> perfectly with MPlayer. "-vo sdl -forcexv" DOES work.
> Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

Someone broke some major stuff in the xv brightness/contrast controls
recently -- nvidia is messed up too. Wait a couple days and all should
be fine. If your problem doesn't go away when that's fixed, report it
again to make sure someone knows there's still a problem.

Rich