A plea for help.
It seems that since I’ve started using gutsy, my PC does not want to play (well, display) any video files played through xine. Which is very very very very annoying. It worked fine originally in fesity, then, when I upgraded to gutsy, the video I wanted to watch decided not to play (and OGG/Theora video)
Then, due to issues, It still won’t play. I’ve tried everything, adn xine itself isn’t thtrowing up anything in the log that’s making me think it’s an issue with that.
Does anyone have any ideas, or would anyone be able to tell me where to look to sort this out? I’ve been all over my xorg.conf, the Xine settings, all to no avail.
Any help would be muchly appreciated! This seems to be one of the only problems I’m, having with gutsy atm!)
September 12th, 2007 at 12:01 am
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ source/gxine/ bug/130218
September 12th, 2007 at 12:35 am
I had a similar problem recently that was corrected by changing the output surface that Xine used. Apparently some change in my video card drivers made xv output stop working. Changing the Xine settings really just worked around a symptom of the problem, but since that seems to be the only thing that (for me) was negatively affected… I’d give you more details, but that was on a mahcine at home, and I’m at work right now…
September 12th, 2007 at 5:13 am
Disable the desktop effects (if you still have them).
I have the compizfusion thing now and it seems that the “video” plugin is not working well… we’ll have to wait for a while to get fixed.
September 12th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Had same issues - do you have an intel graphics chip? Gutsy changed from the i810 driver to the intel driver. I had to change the output plugins for most of the players and then they worked fine. If available in your media player, OpenGL output works nicely with this new driver.
September 12th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
QHartman, I cant find any setting for me that works in Xine.
Dread Knight, I’m not running Compiz… though I might try disabling AIGLX…
dief, nope - ati drivers… and well, if I use opengl output… I get a nice error
September 13th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Use plain x11 output as a fallback. If you can do desktop effects, your video card will be fast enough to handle that.
September 13th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Just a guess: you have an nvidia card and xine defaults to opengl
OpenGL in apps when running compiz fusion does not work correctly because the xsever abi is different from the nvidia-driver’s abi.
It has to do with a bugfix to make xserver work on ubuntu-mobile.
But it breaks with the current nvidia-driver.
You should try glxgears .. see if that runs..