On Monday 16 February 2009 02:40:34 Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:34:49AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > On Monday 16 February 2009 02:26:15 Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:53:55PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:06:34PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > > > > since ogle is imo still the best DVD player ...
> > > >
> > > > I can't really agree with that and never really liked it even when I
> > > > did use it many years ago. When I went to test your diff I could not
> > > > get Ogle to play a DVD properly. The Ogle window comes up and I can
> > > > hear audio but no video. The same DVD works fine with Kaffeine/Xine,
> > > > VLC and MPlayer.
> > >
> > > interesting.  my experience is that vlc, mplayer and xine-lib have
> > > never, on any machine, played DVD video as smoothly as ogle does.
> > > this is especially noticeable at the beginning of "Blue Velvet" or
> > > "Whale Rider" or anything which plays waves or wave-like scenes.
> > > perhaps this has something to do with ogle using multiple processes
> > > for reading the disc, decoding and playback?
> > >
> > > anyway, what's in the ogle window?  solid blue or black?  check
> > > `xvctl autopaint_colorkey`.  sometimes mplayer changes that and
> > > doesn't set it back, which breaks other Xv using applications.
> >
> > solid black.
> >
> > $ xvctl autopaint_colorkey
> > X-Video extension version 2.2 on :0.0
> > autopaint_colorkey = 0
>
> reboot and see what that is before running mplayer.  it's probably 1.
> at least that's what happens for me with a radeon(4).  I've tried
> to get mplayer to set this back, but have not had any luck.

Ya, you were right. that did it. meh. that's not cool.

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