[Fwd: MPlayer / xine]

[Joe Dumais]

I forgot to add that I am using Fedora Core 1 with RIVA128 graphics card.

[Z]

Joe Dumais wrote:
> I forgot to add that I am using Fedora Core 1 with RIVA128 graphics card.
>
> I downloaded and configured the two subject programs.  They work
> fine on audio files and streams, but not video.  MPlayer, on .wmv 
> streams,
> reports asf redirect error. Xine crashed with an xiTK sigsegv error. I 
> have
> all the win32 codecs DLLs configured. With xine, the -V Xv option does 
> not
> work and reports an <xv> problem.
>
> Is there a way to fix any of this?

Undo the prelinking. It breaks the win32 DLL mechanism good.
Change PRELINKING to NO on  /etc/sysconfig/prelink , rerun the cron script
and try again.
Worked for me time and again. I ended up removing prelinking for good.

Z

[Joe Dumais]

Tried that, and I know prelinking is now turned off, but I have the
same symptoms as before.

Z wrote:
> Joe Dumais wrote:
> > I forgot to add that I am using Fedora Core 1 with RIVA128 graphics 
> > card.
> >
> > I downloaded and configured the two subject programs.  They work
> > fine on audio files and streams, but not video.  MPlayer, on .wmv 
> > streams,
> > reports asf redirect error. Xine crashed with an xiTK sigsegv error. 
> > I have
> > all the win32 codecs DLLs configured. With xine, the -V Xv option 
> > does not
> > work and reports an <xv> problem.
> >
> > Is there a way to fix any of this?
>
> Undo the prelinking. It breaks the win32 DLL mechanism good.
> Change PRELINKING to NO on  /etc/sysconfig/prelink , rerun the cron 
> script
> and try again.
> Worked for me time and again. I ended up removing prelinking for good.
>
> Z

[Z]

Joe Dumais wrote:
> Tried that, and I know prelinking is now turned off, but I have the
> same symptoms as before.
>
> Z wrote:
> > Joe Dumais wrote:
> > > I forgot to add that I am using Fedora Core 1 with RIVA128 graphics 
> > > card.
> > >
> > > I downloaded and configured the two subject programs.  They work
> > > fine on audio files and streams, but not video.  MPlayer, on .wmv 
> > > streams,
> > > reports asf redirect error. Xine crashed with an xiTK sigsegv error. 
> > > I have
> > > all the win32 codecs DLLs configured. With xine, the -V Xv option 
> > > does not
> > > work and reports an <xv> problem.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to fix any of this?
> >
> > Undo the prelinking. It breaks the win32 DLL mechanism good.
> > Change PRELINKING to NO on  /etc/sysconfig/prelink , rerun the cron 
> > script
> > and try again.
> > Worked for me time and again. I ended up removing prelinking for good.
> >
> > Z

Does it works wit the Xshm driver (yes, slow, but does it crashes?) ?

[Joe Dumais]

I think I found the problem.  I found some documentation that states
that my Video card does not support xV nor vidix.  Xshm does not work
either.  It appears that I have the worst possible video card, NVIDIA, 
for doing this.

Z wrote:
> Joe Dumais wrote:
> > Tried that, and I know prelinking is now turned off, but I have the
> > same symptoms as before.
> >
> > Z wrote:
> > > Joe Dumais wrote:
> > > > I forgot to add that I am using Fedora Core 1 with RIVA128 graphics 
> > > > card.
> > > >
> > > > I downloaded and configured the two subject programs.  They work
> > > > fine on audio files and streams, but not video.  MPlayer, on .wmv 
> > > > streams,
> > > > reports asf redirect error. Xine crashed with an xiTK sigsegv 
> > > > error. I have
> > > > all the win32 codecs DLLs configured. With xine, the -V Xv option 
> > > > does not
> > > > work and reports an <xv> problem.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to fix any of this?
> > >
> > > Undo the prelinking. It breaks the win32 DLL mechanism good.
> > > Change PRELINKING to NO on  /etc/sysconfig/prelink , rerun the cron 
> > > script
> > > and try again.
> > > Worked for me time and again. I ended up removing prelinking for good.
> > >
> > > Z
>
> Does it works wit the Xshm driver (yes, slow, but does it crashes?) ?

[Kevin Cummings]

Joe Dumais wrote:
> I think I found the problem.  I found some documentation that states
> that my Video card does not support xV nor vidix.  Xshm does not work
> either.  It appears that I have the worst possible video card, NVIDIA, 
> for doing this.

No, you just have a *very* old video card.  I ditched my Riva 128 (AGP 
2x) last Christmas for a (cheap) MX 400 GeForce 2 card ($50 then).  Its 
4x, and supports Xv and Xshm just fine.  Today, you can probably find a 
better one than I have for $50....

[Robin Laing]

Joe Dumais wrote:
> I think I found the problem.  I found some documentation that states
> that my Video card does not support xV nor vidix.  Xshm does not work
> either.  It appears that I have the worst possible video card, NVIDIA, 
> for doing this.

I have a nVidea card that I got to replace my brand new ATI 9600 that 
would not work with FC1 using the ATI drivers.

When RH7 came out, my ATI cards were not supported by XFree86 and I 
could not get a replacement card to work in my computer due to PCI 
buss problems.  Things progress.

As someone else posted, your card may be old and in order to get the 
full features, you will have to bite the bullet and upgrade.

I use mplayer almost daily at home.