Problem...

[Gildas Bazin]

On Wednesday 08 May 2002 20:33, John Mellor wrote:
> 
> vlc loads up Ok but when I try to open a dvd I get lots of info (using vlc
> -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv), the relevant bit seeming to be the following: vpar: no
> vout present, spawning one vout: no free XVideo port found for format
> 0x30323449 (I420) vout: no free XVideo port found for format 0x32595559
> (YUY2) vout: no free XVideo port found for format 0x36315652 (RV16)
> module: locking video output module `xmga'

This is definitely not right. I don't know why vlc is trying to use the 
xmga plugin because this plugin shouldn't even be there. This is an 
experimental and broken plugin.
After trying the xvideo plugin, vlc should have tried the x11 plugin and 
I'm not exactly sure why it didn't try it.

Could you force vlc to use x11 with "vlc --vout x11" and see what happens ?
Also make sure you actually have the x11 plugin installed. Try "vlc -l" and 
check it is in the list. If not, that could mean you have to install 
something like a vlc-x11 package.


> And how do I work the xvideo extension?

Well, if your graphics card has support for this and you also make sure 
you've got a recent version of Xfree86 (something like 4.1.0 or 4.2.0) than 
it should work out of the box. If it doesn't than you are out of luck.

--
Gildas

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