[MPlayer-users] Vidix screen corruption with double buffering

[Marcus Blomenkamp]

Hi there.

Im still experiencing random screen corruptions when playing through xvidix 
plugin. Not the content of the movie while playing but the desktop after 
closing mplayer is destroyed. One can usually repair it by hiding and 
unhiding windows plus changing virtual desktops. Just changing virtual 
consoles does not work for me - maybe this would be different if I had 
multiple X servers running. 

It's also not window-manager dependant, as I first saw this effect on an Icewm 
desktop and now on two different machines running kde-3.0.4 and kde-3.0.8. 
The problem first appeared about half a year ago, so it's nothing freshly 
broken. 

Interestingly the problem only shows in double buffering mode. Single aka 
normal buffering mode does not even produce the slightest problem.

I've seen this problem on a total of two machines, those are the only machines 
I watch movies on and/or a vidix drivers are available for their video cards. 
Both have ATI chips, Rage128 and mach64. They are now running linux-2.4.19 
but the version should not matter anyway. XServers are XFree-4.1.0 and 
XFree-4.2.1. Mobo Chipsets are 440BX and 440LX I think.

I made a screenshot of a window which had been partly masked by the movie 
window but the corruption area is larger than the overlapped area. I did not 
attach any standard output stuff, as nothing extraordinary showed up there.

screenshot also on:
http://home.teleos-web.de/mblomenkamp/

Marcus

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