Comments on: A plea for help.

By: Meneer R

Meneer R — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:09:26 +0000

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..

By: coolvibe

coolvibe — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:36:54 +0000

Use plain x11 output as a fallback. If you can do desktop effects, your video card will be fast enough to handle that.

By: Mez

Mez — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:24:16 +0000

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

By: diel

diel — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:06:08 +0000

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.

By: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:13:15 +0000

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.

By: Qhartman

Qhartman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:35:38 +0000

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…

By: Tom Haddon

Tom Haddon — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:01:04 +0000

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ source/gxine/ bug/130218