Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

[Florian Philipp]

Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan:
> First off, this has probably been discussed before, but I can't find it
> on google.  I've spent the last several hours searching for the answer
> to this and I can't find it.
>
[...]
> So far I am
> very happy with 3.2.1-r2 on my PC except for one thing:  xv doesn't seem
> to work anymore.   On my old kernel, and indeed every kernel I've run on
> this computer since 2005 xv has worked.  I haven't changed any hardware
> in this computer recently or ever.  When I run mplayer I see this in the
> output:
>
> [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
> [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
> [VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
> [VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
> [VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
>
>
> I kept reading about xvinfo included in XFree86 distribution.  I use
> xorg-x11.  I found out that xvinfo can be emerged.  I did so and it said
> this:
>
> X-Video Extension version 2.2
> screen #0
>  no adaptors present
>
>
> which shouldn't be right because I've been using xv with mplayer for
> years.  I assumed then that it was a module problem somewhere.  I hadn't
> run a qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ recently so I did and remerged all the
> packages there.
>
> My video card info from lspci -v:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL
> Integrated Graphics Controller (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> 	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 5647
[...]
> I can successfully modprobe the i915 module.  Everything that can be is
> built with the xv USE flag on.  Is there anything else I
> need to do to get my xv to work with mplayer?
>

Can you run mplayer with -vo gl?
Do other video players have the same problem, e.g. VLC?

Regards,
Florian Philipp