[vlc] Re: Linux framebuffer problems

Jean-Paul Saman saman at natlab.research.philips.com
Mon May 24 11:35:57 CEST 2004


Jan Ekholm wrote:
>>Jan Ekholm wrote:
>>>On Fri, 21 May 2004, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:> 
> Ok, I just can't for the love of Darwin get a window to show up with any
> DVB content. All looks perfectly ok, no evident errors in the log, the
> signal gets locked on, programs probed and found, filters created etc.
> Interesting. Maybe it needs a --vout=<something> option? Values like
> "x11", "xvideo" don't do anything, nor does giving any arbitrary garbage
> as the value trigger an error. So apparently vlc never gets so far as to
> start parsing/using the value given with --vout?
> 
> The documentation isn't really too clear on this issue, and --help and
> --longhelp don't say too much either. The debugging output doesn't say
> what it lacks nor what resource/thingie it can't get a hold of. The amount
> of options and their organization is a slight mess though, and it's more
> or less impossible to know what to actually use. The online documentation
> isn't really in sync with the inline help or what actually can be used...
> I probably do something stupid again
> 
> Well, at least the data seems to be flowing in *some* form, even if it's
> not really watchable yet. :)
> 

Could you provide the logfile? It could tell us more what is wrong.

-- 
Kind greetings,

Jean-Paul Saman




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