Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:18:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aviplay with 24-bit color depth? Message-ID: <XFMail.20011014111847.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <200110102006.f9AK6qZ08905@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On 10-Oct-2001 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> wrote: > > Does anyone else have problems using aviplay at color depths higher > > than 16 bits? > > > > If I run X in 24 bits (savage driver on S3 Savage 4), I get no video, > > just a static, unmoving, completely scrambled display in the aviplay > > window. I can hear the audio OK as the video plays. > > I've had similar problems on my laptop (S3 Savage-MX chip, > 8 Mbyte VRAM): aviplay worked fine in 16bit, but didn't in > 32bit. Of course I wanted to use 32bit. I was using some > not-so-up-to-date XFree86 4.0.xxx version (don't remember > exactly). > > Well I finally decided to upgrade to the latest 4.1.0, and > guess what -- avifile worked fine in 32bit mode afterwards. > So I'd recommend that you check your XFree86 version and > upgrade, if necessary. Worked for me. Hmmm. I'm running the latest version of X from the ports collection, and still the same behavior. I get the same thing in mplayer unless I use the -vo switch to force a particular visual setting. Strange. I'm wondering if there may be some X module I should or shouldn't be loading. My XF86Config is pretty bare-bones at the moment. -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Do something unusual today. Pay a bill. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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