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Date:      Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:37:16 +0200
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        Derrick Edwards <dantavious313@gmail.com>
Cc:        kib@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VLC problems
Message-ID:  <20120927183716.GA6608@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <201209261839.35551.dantavious313@gmail.com>
References:  <201209252359.44863.dantavious313@gmail.com> <201209261612.28140.dantavious313@gmail.com> <20120926202100.GA61157@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <201209261839.35551.dantavious313@gmail.com>

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 06:39:35PM -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 04:21:00 PM you wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 04:12:27PM -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 03:19:42 PM Juergen Lock wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:59:44PM -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote:
> > > > > 	HI,
> > > > 
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > > I am having problems with vlc. Once executed it displays the gui
> > > > > however, when attempting to select file and play movie, it does not
> > > > > play. I provided some output that I found interesting. Let me know
> > > > > if you need anymore output.
> > > > > 
> > > > > V/r
> > > > > Derrick
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e)
> > > > > [0x80249ea58] skins2 interface: skin: eDark Vlc  author: aaron a
> > > > > [0x80249ea58] skins2 interface: skin: Unnamed Theme  author: OFursov
> > > > > [0x80249ea58] skins2 interface: new theme successfully loaded
> > > > > (/usr/local/share/vlc/skins2/148046-4colors.vlt)
> > > > > [mpeg4 @ 0x812486b20] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames
> > > > > detected [0x81ec333d8] xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo
> > > > > adaptor
> > > > 
> > > > Hm what video hardware and Xorg driver are you using there?  Does
> > > > xvinfo show anything?
> > > > 
> > > >  You could try selecting X11 video output in Tools -> Prefs -> Video
> > > > 
> > > > -> Output, or if that doesn't work try selecting SDL there (Simple
> > > > DirectMedia video output)  It's also possible you have too little
> > > > 
> > > > sysv shared memory, try these sysctls settings:
> > > > 	kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
> > > > 	kern.ipc.shmall=32768
> > > > 	
> > > >  HTH,
> > > >  
> > > > 	Juergen
> > > > 	
> > > > > writev(0xe,0x7fffff9faf20,0x6,0x18ad0,0x50,0x0)  = 48 (0x30)
> > > > > read(14,0x80c8152c0,8)                           ERR#35 'Resource
> > > > > temporarily unavailable'
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > 	Juergen,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your assistance. Selecting  X11 video output in Tools -> Prefs
> > > -> Video > -> Output, did the trick. Just for FYI, I am using:
> > > 
> > > Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
> > > xorg-server-1.10.6_1,1         X.Org X server and related programs
> > > 
> > > kern.ipc.shmmax: 536870912
> > > kern.ipc.shmall: 131072
> > 
> > Ah I guess then you're using the vesa driver?  Or are you actually
> > using the Intel KMS patches (now committed to 9.1 or head branches),
> > tho hat would be strange if those didn't support Xvideo...
> > 
> > 	Juergen
>      Juergen,
> You are correct, I am using the Intel KMS patches on current. VLC 1* worked 
> perfectly without any changes to video output settings. 

Can you install x11/xvinfo and check output of it?  I wonder if the
intel kms patches are really missing xvideo support...

 And if it does find something could you test xvideo using other players
like mplayer -vo xv ...?

 Thanx, :)
	Juergen



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