unable to play dvds

[Ryan Reddy]

Gildas-

Thanks for your help.  It's almost working.  Now I can
hear sound and it does not crash but I still don't see
video.  Also, how do I close crashed programs?  I am
kind of a linux newbie.  I will go grab the nvidia
drivers now.


any other advice?

ryan
--- Gildas Bazin <gbazin at netcourrier.com> wrote:
> On Monday 09 July 2001 6:16 am, Ryan Reddy wrote:
> >
> >In the terminal window in which I used to start VLC
> I
> > received an error like bad video input port or
> > something.  I am now unable to shut the windows
> that
> > were opened and my dvd will now eject.
> 
> I've got exactly the same problem because my system
> doesn't support the 
> Xvideo output ( Xvideo output provides the better
> performance than the x11 
> output because it can do direct YUV Overlay ).
> The problem is that vlc doesn't handle well the fact
> that you asked to use 
> Xvideo output but this one is not supported by your
> video card.
> 
> Instead you can try to run "vlc --vout x11" this
> should work.
> 
> I'm working on a patch which should at least avoid
> this segfault and will 
> also close gracefully the black window.
> 
> >  Here are my system details:
> > NVIDIA GeForce II MX video card w/TV out
> > 
> 
> You could go to the nvidia web site and downlowd
> their linux drivers, they 
> support Xvideo. I think the drivers in XFree 4.0.2
> also support Xvideo.
> 
> --
> Gildas
> 
> 

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