extension "XVideo" missing on display

[Jean-Paul Saman]

I had the same problem and solved it in the following way:

+ Do: rpm -ivh vlc-2.73.1.i386.rpm solve all missing rpm's including the
following libraries:
+ Install SDL 1.2.0, SDL_image-1.2.0, SDL_mixer-1.2.0 both normal and
development libraries from libsdl.org,
+ do the same for gnome, gtk+ libraries and glibc-devel and a library called
liblcms-1.06-37.rpm (can be found through rpmfind.net)
+ uninstall the binary vlc-2.73 with rpm -e vlc
+ Install the vlc-2.73-1-src.rpm

+do: rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS vlc.spec
and wait till it successfully completes. If you got errors, then you forgot
to install probably a development library needed.

+Install your home backed rpm, with
rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/i368/vlc-2.73-1.i368.rpm

and start vlc with these commandline options:
vlc --yuv yuv -V sdl -I gnome

Use --width=1024 --height=768 if you like to use a fullscreen.
This should have solved your problem. It did with mine ;-)

Greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Howard <faxguy at deanox.com>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 8:52 PM
Subject: extension "XVideo" missing on display


> Hi, could someone point me in the right direction into resolving this
> problem?:
>
> Xlib:  extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".
> vout error: XvBadExtension
> vout error: no XVideo extension
> vout error: video initialization failed, video is deactivated
> VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.73 Ourumov - (C)1996-2001 VideoLAN
>
> So I get audio, but no video.
>
> I'm using:
>
> RedHat Linux 7.0 (updated)
> vlc-0.2.73-1
> SDL-1.1.7-3
> xview-devel-3.2p1.4-6
> xview-3.2p1.4-6
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lee Howard
>
>
>