[gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Michael Sullivan]

My gmplayer screen (using the X11/Xv video driver (which is the only
driver that provides adequate full-screen performance)) is showing blue.
The movie's sound comes through, but no picture - just that blue screen.
I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but
I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org.  Can
anyone help me?

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Nick Rout]

copied from the earlier thread:

> > * Patrick Marquetecken
> >> Whatever skin i uses the mplayer gui always looks bue.
> >> Is this normal ?
> >
> > I had this problem a while ago
> > (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66666) and my "solution" was
> > to emerge it with USE="mmx mmx2".
> >
> > However, that won't do it for the amd64-folks :/ It'd be interesting
> > if someone was able to close this bug properly, i.e. find out what the
> > real cause is.
> >
> > --
> > Steingrim Dovland. Oslo, Norway.
> > This behaviour is by design.
> Well the solution was good enough for me
> 
> Thanks
> Patrick


On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:02:50 -0500
Michael Sullivan wrote:

> My gmplayer screen (using the X11/Xv video driver (which is the only
> driver that provides adequate full-screen performance)) is showing blue.
> The movie's sound comes through, but no picture - just that blue screen.
> I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but
> I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org.  Can
> anyone help me?
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Alexander Kirillov]

I had a problem with mplayer theme colours.
Never with the picture itself.
Don't know if my experience is of any use to you
but you may try mplayer with 16 and 24 colour depth
and with sse and sse2 use flags if supported by your cpu
to see if it makes any difference.

> My gmplayer screen (using the X11/Xv video driver (which is the only
> driver that provides adequate full-screen performance)) is showing blue.
> The movie's sound comes through, but no picture - just that blue screen.
> I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but
> I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org.  Can
> anyone help me?

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Michael Sullivan]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 01:54 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> I had a problem with mplayer theme colours.
> Never with the picture itself.
> Don't know if my experience is of any use to you
> but you may try mplayer with 16 and 24 colour depth
> and with sse and sse2 use flags if supported by your cpu
> to see if it makes any difference.
> 
> > My gmplayer screen (using the X11/Xv video driver (which is the only
> > driver that provides adequate full-screen performance)) is showing blue.
> > The movie's sound comes through, but no picture - just that blue screen.
> > I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but
> > I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org.  Can
> > anyone help me?
> 

They're not supported. :(

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[William Kenworthy]

This happens to me if I use an external monitor, whilst the laptop lcd
shows the picture fine (both displaying the same screen at the same
time).  Does this help?

BillK


On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 18:06 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 01:54 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > I had a problem with mplayer theme colours.
> > Never with the picture itself.
> > Don't know if my experience is of any use to you
> > but you may try mplayer with 16 and 24 colour depth
> > and with sse and sse2 use flags if supported by your cpu
> > to see if it makes any difference.
> > 
> > > My gmplayer screen (using the X11/Xv video driver (which is the only
> > > driver that provides adequate full-screen performance)) is showing blue.
> > > The movie's sound comes through, but no picture - just that blue screen.
> > > I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but
> > > I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org.  Can
> > > anyone help me?
> > 
> 
> They're not supported. :(
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Michael Sullivan]

It will if I ever install Gentoo on a laptop.  Unfortunately, this is a
PC.  Thank you for trying to help though...

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 07:20 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> This happens to me if I use an external monitor, whilst the laptop lcd
> shows the picture fine (both displaying the same screen at the same
> time).  Does this help?
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 18:06 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 01:54 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > > I had a problem with mplayer theme colours.
> > > Never with the picture itself.
> > > Don't know if my experience is of any use to you
> > > but you may try mplayer with 16 and 24 colour depth
> > > and with sse and sse2 use flags if supported by your cpu
> > > to see if it makes any difference.
> > > 
> > > > My gmplayer screen (using the X11/Xv video driver (which is the only
> > > > driver that provides adequate full-screen performance)) is showing blue.
> > > > The movie's sound comes through, but no picture - just that blue screen.
> > > > I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but
> > > > I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org.  Can
> > > > anyone help me?
> > > 
> > 
> > They're not supported. :(
> > 
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> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Chris Hoobin]

try to increase your colour depth.. that fixed it for me

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Michael Sullivan]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:52 +1000, Chris Hoobin wrote:
> try to increase your colour depth.. that fixed it for me
> 

How do I do that?

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Chris Hoobin]

you must reconfigure your xorg.conf file

in the screen section...

here is my config...

..

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen0"
    Device      "nVidia 6800 GT"
    Monitor     "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1600x1200"
        ViewPort    0 0  # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
    EndSubsection

EndSection

..

if you dont want to do it manually just run  /usr/bin/xorgconfig  again



On 7/11/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:52 +1000, Chris Hoobin wrote:
> > try to increase your colour depth.. that fixed it for me
> >
> 
> How do I do that?
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Nick Rout]

what happens when you use mplayer (as opposed to gmplayer)?


On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:02:50 -0500
Michael Sullivan wrote:

> My gmplayer screen (using the X11/Xv video driver (which is the only
> driver that provides adequate full-screen performance)) is showing blue.
> The movie's sound comes through, but no picture - just that blue screen.
> I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but
> I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org.  Can
> anyone help me?
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Javier Uribe]

El lun, 11-07-2005 a las 16:13 +1200, Nick Rout escribió:
> what happens when you use mplayer (as opposed to gmplayer)?
> 
> 
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:02:50 -0500
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > My gmplayer screen (using the X11/Xv video driver (which is the only
> > driver that provides adequate full-screen performance)) is showing blue.
> > The movie's sound comes through, but no picture - just that blue screen.
> > I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but
> > I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org.  Can
> > anyone help me?
> > 
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> 
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> Nick Rout
> 

I had a similar problem, but rebuild mplayer whit using next USE
variable

"3dnow 3dnowext alsa avi divx4linux directfb encode gif gtk ipv6 jpeg
mad mpeg mmx mmxext nls nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss png real sdl sse
truetype X xmms xv"

my problems were solved

greetings
 

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is blue!

[Danny Luker]

On 7/10/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> My gmplayer screen (using the X11/Xv video driver (which is the only
> driver that provides adequate full-screen performance)) is showing blue.
> The movie's sound comes through, but no picture - just that blue screen.
> I seem to remember someone had this same problem several months ago, but
> I cannot seem to find the thread in the archives at gmane.org.  Can
> anyone help me?
> 
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> 
> 

I had the exact same problem.  I read somewhere about using the USE
flags "mmx" and "3dnow".  I think I tried just the "mmx" and it solved
the problem for me.  mmx is for Pentium type processors.

Best regards!
Danny

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