[opensuse] Suse 10.2 and 10.3 will not play video files.
I have a notebook: LG lm50a with an ati radeon 9700 video card. Suse 10.1 used to play video clips (wmv and mpeg). However since I upgraded to 10.1 and subsequently 10.2 I cannot get video playback to work. (ie not with either level) I've followed the instructions for adding the community supported rpm's to no avail. when I start a video playback I get sound but mplayer, and xine both show a blank black video display area. Neither app prints an error message. If I attempt to discover which codecs are supported: mplayer -vo help MPlayer 1.0rc2-SUSE Linux 10.3 (i686)-Packman-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Available video output drivers: xv X11/Xv x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers gl X11 (OpenGL) gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 ) sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!) fbdev Framebuffer Device fbdev2 Framebuffer Device aa AAlib caca libcaca v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output bl Blinkenlights driver: http://www.blinkenlights.de directfb Direct Framebuffer Device dfbmga DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 xvidix X11 (VIDIX) cvidix console VIDIX null Null video output xvmc XVideo Motion Compensation mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools png PNG file jpeg JPEG file gif89a animated GIF output tga Targa output pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file md5sum md5sum of each frame wmv and mpeg are not listed. In fact none of the proprietary formats are. Whats the point of installing the /usr/lib/win32 stuff? Are there any detailed instructions for how to proceed from here? frustrated. wcn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wendell Nichols wrote:
I have a notebook: LG lm50a with an ati radeon 9700 video card. Suse 10.1 used to play video clips (wmv and mpeg). However since I upgraded to 10.1 and subsequently 10.2 I cannot get video playback to work. (ie not with either level) I've followed the instructions for adding the community supported rpm's to no avail.
Is this the case for any format?
when I start a video playback I get sound but mplayer, and xine both show a blank black video display area. Neither app prints an error message. If I attempt to discover which codecs are supported:
mplayer -vo help MPlayer 1.0rc2-SUSE Linux 10.3 (i686)-Packman-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Available video output drivers: xv X11/Xv x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers gl X11 (OpenGL) gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 ) sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!) fbdev Framebuffer Device fbdev2 Framebuffer Device aa AAlib caca libcaca v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output bl Blinkenlights driver: http://www.blinkenlights.de directfb Direct Framebuffer Device dfbmga DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 xvidix X11 (VIDIX) cvidix console VIDIX null Null video output xvmc XVideo Motion Compensation mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools png PNG file jpeg JPEG file gif89a animated GIF output tga Targa output pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file md5sum md5sum of each frame wmv and mpeg are not listed. In fact none of the proprietary formats are. Whats the point of installing the /usr/lib/win32 stuff? Are there any detailed instructions for how to proceed from here? frustrated.
That's because you're talking about two different things. mplayer -vo help lists the output formats, mplayer -vc help lists the supported codecs. Try doing mplayer -vo xv (or -vo gl, or -vo gl2, etc) until you find one that works for you. Alternatively, you could rm -rf ~/.mplayer and let it try to figure out which one it should use on its own. As far as the proprietary formats are concerned, our official position has to be that we can't ship these modules. They're patent encumbered, and we'd expose the whole of Novell to liability if we shipped them. We don't like it any more than you do. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHIA88LPWxlyuTD7IRAlGKAKCcVUqjv8E307HRwOt92aabOFlMWgCfdoww AeI2mXrH9TkRzhBqvRaO3/w= =eJt9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
While working through the faq's on the xine home page I found that, (one of their suggestions) works: xine -V XShm <file> They say that this indicates a buggy Xv extension. I'm running xorg-x11-libXv-7.2-61 as one would expect in suse 10.3. They suggested I reduce my resolution or screen depth, which I did to no avail.(even at 8 bpp) So I hacked my .xine/config file to select xshm as the default decoder even though it's slower than xv. It is possible that xv would work with the proprietary ATI driver, but my experience with that driver is that it causes suspend/restore to fail. I need suspend/restore working because I run an emulator that takes 20 minutes to start and who's got 20 minutes to boot their laptop? Anyway if anyone ha suggestions about how I can get xv working... I'm all ears... (eyes?) wcn Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Wendell Nichols wrote:
I have a notebook: LG lm50a with an ati radeon 9700 video card. Suse 10.1 used to play video clips (wmv and mpeg). However since I upgraded to 10.1 and subsequently 10.2 I cannot get video playback to work. (ie not with either level) I've followed the instructions for adding the community supported rpm's to no avail.
Is this the case for any format?
when I start a video playback I get sound but mplayer, and xine both show a blank black video display area. Neither app prints an error message. If I attempt to discover which codecs are supported:
mplayer -vo help MPlayer 1.0rc2-SUSE Linux 10.3 (i686)-Packman-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Available video output drivers: xv X11/Xv x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers gl X11 (OpenGL) gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 ) sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!) fbdev Framebuffer Device fbdev2 Framebuffer Device aa AAlib caca libcaca v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output bl Blinkenlights driver: http://www.blinkenlights.de directfb Direct Framebuffer Device dfbmga DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 xvidix X11 (VIDIX) cvidix console VIDIX null Null video output xvmc XVideo Motion Compensation mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools png PNG file jpeg JPEG file gif89a animated GIF output tga Targa output pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file md5sum md5sum of each frame wmv and mpeg are not listed. In fact none of the proprietary formats are. Whats the point of installing the /usr/lib/win32 stuff? Are there any detailed instructions for how to proceed from here? frustrated.
That's because you're talking about two different things.
mplayer -vo help lists the output formats, mplayer -vc help lists the supported codecs.
Try doing mplayer -vo xv (or -vo gl, or -vo gl2, etc) until you find one that works for you. Alternatively, you could rm -rf ~/.mplayer and let it try to figure out which one it should use on its own.
As far as the proprietary formats are concerned, our official position has to be that we can't ship these modules. They're patent encumbered, and we'd expose the whole of Novell to liability if we shipped them.
We don't like it any more than you do.
-Jeff
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Wendell Nichols wrote:
While working through the faq's on the xine home page I found that, (one of their suggestions) works: xine -V XShm <file>
They say that this indicates a buggy Xv extension. I'm running xorg-x11-libXv-7.2-61 as one would expect in suse 10.3. They suggested I reduce my resolution or screen depth, which I did to no avail.(even at 8 bpp) So I hacked my .xine/config file to select xshm as the default decoder even though it's slower than xv. It is possible that xv would work with the proprietary ATI driver, but my experience with that driver is that it causes suspend/restore to fail. I need suspend/restore working because I run an emulator that takes 20 minutes to start and who's got 20 minutes to boot their laptop?
Anyway if anyone ha suggestions about how I can get xv working... I'm all ears... (eyes?) wcn
Wendell, see my latest post: "ATI 8.4.2.3 Driver Bug? was [Re: [opensuse] Compiz Update on XGL Build Service 6.0]" For some reason, at least on my Toshiba P35 with the "ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series" card, I am having fits with the driver. However, my video playback does work fine. I just through in one of my kids Harry Potter dvds and playback is great in Kaffeine. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 22:27 -0600, Wendell Nichols wrote:
They say that this indicates a buggy Xv extension. I'm running xorg-x11-libXv-7.2-61 as one would expect in suse 10.3. They suggested I reduce my resolution or screen depth, which I did to no avail.(even at 8 bpp) ... Anyway if anyone ha suggestions about how I can get xv working... I'm all ears... (eyes?)
It's probably some Xorg bug. I've got some Xorg packages after updating my system yesterday and I didn't notice the problem so far. I don't know if that has something to do with that, but I have nVidia GeForce 6200 and I use nVidia proprietary driver. -- Igor Jagec
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