blank screen with sound

[khchan at cyberdude.com]

>on Sun, 09 Sep khchan at cyberdude.com wrote:
>>
>>the problem would most likely be here??:
>>vout error: can't create YUV overlay surface.
>>vout: DirectXUpdateOverlay no overlay !!
>>
>
>This doesn't explain why you don't have any video.
>This just tells you that your video card doesn't support YUV overlays and thus vlc won't use any hardware acceleration (from your graphics card). But vlc is falling back to software YUV conversion (message vout: DirectX RGB surface created successfully).
>
my video card supports some kind of hardware acceleration
copied from xing mpeg player diagnostics:

The XingMPEG Driver is currently using Video Acceleration and has detected your Windows display driver's Video Acceleration support:



Surface Type:	Direct Draw Overlay

Stretch Capable:	Yes

Color Space:	UYVY


that's YUV overlays right? or is it some other form
of acceleration?


>>Xing MPEG Player 3.3 and Windows Media Player 6.4
>>could easily play that mpg file... under xing, when
>>sound and rate control is off, i get over 50+ fps...
>
>The problem is not that vlc can't play the file, it does play it (according to the logs you sent) but cannot display it. I don't really know why, maybe you could try to change the depth of your display to 16bits (65536 colours) instead of 24bits (because I'm not sure vlc does YUV->RGB software conversion for 24bits depths).
>
changing the display depth did the trick! :)
i changed my display to use 16 bits depth, and i made
sure vlc was playing in 16 bits depth, and it worked.
my card doesn't support 32 bits depth and vlc doesn't
seem to support 24 bits depth... doesn't look like the
option is there... so... 16 bits depth was the only
config that worked.
the display is very choppy though... i think i'm getting
less than 10fps with vlc... most likely cause hardware
acceleration didn't work... sigh.


>Sorry I can't help you more
>
helped a lot already...
thanks for all the help mate. :)
very much appreciated.

rgds,

kh

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