From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dzezz-0006wC-KK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:26:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j71IQ7F3018574; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:26:07 GMT Received: from smtp108.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp108.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j71IQ54R025101 for <gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:26:06 GMT Received: (qmail 5894 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2005 18:26:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?4.246.253.31?) (michael.six@sbcglobal.net@4.246.253.31 with plain) by smtp108.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Aug 2005 18:26:15 -0000 Message-ID: <42EE0694.4020101@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:25:08 +0000 From: Mike S <michael_six@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050731) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-ppc-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-ppc-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-ppc-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-ppc-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] DVD Playback in Gentoo? References: <42ED2379.1000105@users.sourceforge.net> <200508010911.56931.carl@hudkins.org> In-Reply-To: <200508010911.56931.carl@hudkins.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a4f86216-524f-440c-9c9f-616873ecf3c4 X-Archives-Hash: e0716cf78d1a53d5475aafa7026ab254 Carl Hudkins wrote: >On Sun July 31 2005 15:16, Mike S wrote: > > > >>I have used now 3 different distributions, ubuntu, debian, and now >>gentoo, and in all of them the same thing has happened, whenever I try >>to play a dvd my screen gets a yellowish tint, my teminals that may be >>open get distoted colors, (usually red) for the text in them, and it >>won't play. Has anyone gotten this to work? >> >> > > What color depth are you running X in? I recall having severe problems >playing any sort of video in 24-bit color, so then I changed to 16-bit and I >have no problems. I do notice that when playing most videos the colors of my >desktop background get messed up, but I consider that a trivial problem and >ignore it. (In a couple of hours the background changes, anyway.) > > If you run "xine --verbose dvd://" in a command window, do you get any >helpful information about what it's doing or where it quits? > > > xine doesn't quit, totem does, but xine doesn't, xine just plays a blank screen. I think I am in 24-bit depth and I will look into changing that. Thanks a bunch. --Mike S -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list