Bug#442181: playing video with -vo xvidix using radeon 9200 almost always shows green screen

[Reinhard Tartler]

tags 442181 help upstream
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Hi there,

I'm in the process of cleaning up old bugreports. This is a really old
one, and I need to apologize for not coming to this earlier.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 17:16:50 (EDT), Alan L. Liu wrote:

> Package: mplayer
> Version: 1.0~rc1-15
> Severity: normal
>
> For a long time I've used mplayer's xvidix output, which has never had
> a problem playing videos with my dedicated Radeon 9200. Recently
> mplayer's behavior has been to show only a green screen until a lot of
> seemingly random alt-tabbing, pausing, rewinding, and so forth on my
> part gets the video to finally show up. Sometimes, portions of the
> video show up on the left, and the rest is a stripe of green, but
> usually it's the whole window. It may be due to upgrading Xorg but I'm
> not sure since mplayer is the only program I use that has it.

Does this still happen with current lenny or squeeze? I have to admit
that I have no idea about vidix other than it needs special
hardware. I'm therefore tagging this bug 'help'.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4