On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:38:31PM +0400, Oleynik Phil wrote:
Adam Nielsen wrote:
(i.e. the xv overlay has been created and destroyed a number of times - probably 15 to 20 times) it suddenly stops creating the overlay and all I get is the blue window where the video should be. MPlayer doesn't
Yes I have had the same problem.
problem? It's rather annoying and requires a complete reload of X11 to fix (switching to text mode and back with Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't work.)
I sometimes get it fixed without restarting X, but I don't know how. When it stops working, I switch to use -vo gl2, but I think sometimes when after I have forgot to give that parameter it works again with xv. Also at least one time xv wasn't working and was just showing blue, I had hanging mplayer on the background and "killall mplayer" fixed it. I don't know why, but sometimes mplayer seems to stay background although it has closed its window (and GUI).
First of al, NVidia driver is open-source. You can run a package with
No it is not. "Open-source" is something else but "partly open source". If Nvidia driver really would be open source, RivaTV driver developers wouldn't have problems to get Video-IN working with nvidia binary driver. Now there is, and Video-IN does not work in Nvidia cards with nvidia drivers. Please avoid buying Nvidia cards.
--extract-only
or -x. Please notice the files in usr/lib/. If you have source code for those files, I am sure very many people would be thankful if you would share them. Part of the driver (which uses nvidia hardware) is in .so files, and those are binary only.
If problem persists after downloading -7174 version of a driver, post xvinfo output here.
I have had the problem with v7174 driver. When I have it next time, I'll try to debug more. // jouni