Bug#604687: vlc: xvideo output not working on powerbook (radeon video card, powerpc)

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Thu Oct 13 06:58:28 UTC 2011


tags 604687 + help
thanks

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:55:01 -0700 (PDT), Jiggy Bau <jiggy_bau at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>> If possible, it would be interesting to see if Debian x86 VLC is able
to
>> use XVideo on your PowerPC system through X11 or SSH export display.
> 
> 
> I tried this and got the following results (when running with --vout
xv):

It would be better with -vv...

> VLC media player 1.1.3 The Luggage (revision exported)
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
> Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
> Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
> [0x86ed8fc] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
> 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
> Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
> Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0xb71180d4, 0xb7118048)
> Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
> Warning: call to srand(1318350451)
> Warning: call to rand()
> Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
> 
> (process:3129): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
> Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> Warning: call to rand()
> [0x89ff6e4] main video output error: video output creation failed
> [0x893dd64] main decoder error: failed to create video output
> [0x893dd64] main decoder warning: can't get output picture
> [0x893dd64] avcodec decoder warning: disabling direct rendering
> Warning: call to rand()
> Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "C")
> Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "en_US.utf8")
> Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "C")
> [0x891edf4] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-9796),
> dropping buffer
> [0x891edf4] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-33767),
> dropping buffer
> ^C[0x878ad04] signals interface error: Caught Interrupt signal,
exiting...
> 
> When running VLC with --vout x11, it manages (barely) to play video on
> remote X server, although it prints out errors such as:
> [0xa26f8fc] xcb_x11 generic error: shared memory server-side error: X11
> error 10
> [0xa26f8fc] xcb_x11 generic: using buggy X11 server - SSH proxying?

That's to be expected when using OpenSSH.

> Interestingly enough, mplayer works fine under the same circumstances
and
> produces a video stream that is almost watchable,
> only appears in slow-motion.

Of course, if mplayer uses XVideo and VLC plain X11, this is like
comparing oranges and apples. Video over SSH should be slow anyway, due to
bandwidth constraints, and CPU-hungry encryption.

Anyway, I have no further ideas other than stepping through the VLC code
and I cannot test this myself so I have to leave it there.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/





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