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 1E1Yze-00011G-H0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:26:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j770Pkn0027065; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 00:25:46 GMT Received: from smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j770PiNf030161 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 00:25:45 GMT Received: (qmail 80208 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2005 00:25:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?4.246.81.57?) (michael.six@sbcglobal.net@4.246.81.57 with plain) by smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Aug 2005 00:25:46 -0000 Message-ID: <42F4F22A.9080700@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:23:54 +0000 From: Mike S User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050731) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail 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, carl@hudkins.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: de22aa42-7bc0-4927-888e-8d13fb4bd878 X-Archives-Hash: feeb72365ee31bb1ad87b68edb73240a 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? > > > Thank you Carl! I checked my xorg.conf (because I don't know how to change but-depth in a gui) and changed my default Depth to 16 instead of 24, and in the end, that's the only thing that worked. Sorry it's been so long, but I have been busy with Slackware on my girlfriend's laptop. --Mike S -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list