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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 24 February 2008 at 11:43, yh wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

> $ 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.

How have you rebuilt it? What does the build log say?

I suggest you upgrade your Fedora and use MPlayer packages from livna
(maintained by me) and save yourself the trouble if you can't build it
properly on your own.

Regards,
R.

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