[MPlayer-users] Blank screen on MPlayer-1.0rc2

[yh]

On 2008-02-24 00:04+0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>On Sunday, 24 February 2008 at 10:36, yh wrote:
>> On 2008-02-23 12:21+0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> >Hi!
>> >
>> >yh <jupiter.hce <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> I was previously installed MPlayer-1.0rc1, it worked fine until when I played
>> >with a new DVD movie, there
>> >> were errors and could not play with. As per
>> >> advised by the people from the list, I updated to MPlayer-1.0rc2. I
>> >> downloaded a source file, built it on my FC 5 without gui as I only use it
>> >> in a command line. When I play it, there was no video frame although the audio
>> >worked.
>> >> 
>> >> What could I be I missing?
>> >
>> >Possibly two things:
>> >The xv devel package for FC5.
>> 
>> Is the xv devel package included in RC2 source file? If not where
>> should I download from?
>
>Why would it be? It's something that comes with your distribution.
>yum install libXv-devel
>(as root) should do the trick. Also I recommend upgrading to at least F-7.
>FC5 is old and unsupported.
>
>> Since I can play with MPlayer-1.0rc1 before on the same machine, does
>> that mean that the requirement of xv devel package is only new to RC2?
>
>It's not new. It's just that to *compile* you need -devel packages.
>You don't need them to *run* the compiled binaries.

I installed a libXv-devel-1.0.1-1.2.i386.rpm for FC5, can that
version be used for RC2?

$ rpm -q libXv-devel
libXv-devel-1.0.1-1.2

I rebuilt the RC2 source, but still no video frame, and same errors in
the output.   

Thank you.

Jim