[vlc] Re: getting black box with xvideo

Torsten Foertsch torsten.foertsch at gmx.net
Tue Jun 17 09:15:45 CEST 2003


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On Monday 16 June 2003 19:10, Sigmund Augdal wrote:
> Sounds like a problem with your video drivers. Can you send the output of
> "vlc -vv <yourfile>" and the output of xvinfo?
>
> I also know some radeon cards don't support overlay on the tv-out (or only
> on the primary head witch can be changed from tv-out to display and visa
> versa). Perhaps this is the problem.

I have found it. I have noticed it works on another machine and inspected in 
what they differ. When I changed

Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24

to

Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 16

in my /etc/X11/XF86Config it worked. Is there an explanation for that?

Torsten
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