Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > apt-cache policy libavcodec52 > > Note the version that is in the debian repositories, and then: > > aptitude install > libav{codec52,device52,filter0,format52,util49,postproc51}= you just found out> ffmpeg=version This was not really enou

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Felipe Sateler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/06/10 12:30, Matteo Riva wrote: > I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order > to apply that solution. I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try > removing libavutil50 I have a chain of dependencies complainin

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/17/2010 11:30 AM, Matteo Riva wrote: >> >> I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order >> to apply that solution.  I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try >> removing libavutil50 I have a chain of depend

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/17/2010 11:30 AM, Matteo Riva wrote: I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order to apply that solution. I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try removing libavutil50 I have a chain of dependencies complaining: Remove the following packages: 1)

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
This is the error I get in console: swScaler: pal8 is not supported as output pixel format [0xa0d7c30] swscale scale error: could not init SwScaler and/or allocate memory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread AG
On 17/06/10 13:52, Angus Hedger wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC. Yesterday upon start VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to proceed. Today the player starts but the video is squi

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order to apply that solution. I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try removing libavutil50 I have a chain of dependencies complaining: Remove the following packages: 1) ffmpeg 2) gnome 3) gstreamer0.10-f

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Hedger
> Is vlc really in d-m?  It's in my sources.list ('apt-cache policy' > demonstrates it), but vlc only seems to be in "Debian". > > m...@haggis:~$ apt-cache policy vlc > vlc: >  Installed: 1.0.6-1 >  Candidate: 1.0.6-1 >  Version table: >  *** 1.0.6-1 0 >        500 http://mirrors.kernel.org sid/ma

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/17/2010 07:52 AM, Angus Hedger wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC. Yesterday upon start VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to proceed. Today the player starts but the video is squ

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Do you use the debian multimedia repo? >> >> Because I had the same problem with VLC myself yesterday, the only >> thing I could do to fix it was to disable the dm repo, purg

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger wrote: > Hey, > > Do you use the debian multimedia repo? > > Because I had the same problem with VLC myself yesterday, the only > thing I could do to fix it was to disable the dm repo, purge vlc, and > reinstall from just debian main. I was indeed us

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: > I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC.  Yesterday upon start > VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to > proceed.  Today the player starts but the video is squished horizontally > (it occupies roughly

Re: Video problems and questions

2003-07-09 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I am still in the process of getting my new machine to maximum > performance, so I pose yet another question: How do I maximize my card's > performance under X and how do I get the framebuffer to work? > As far as the framebuffer, it just doesn't seem to work. I ha

Re: Video problems during 2.2 install

2000-06-07 Thread Vitux
Larry Elmore wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote: > > > I have a 20" fixed-freq monitor that uses a special Permedia2 video > > > card. It works fine except for some DOS games that like > 640x480 > > > resolution (like Harpoon 2 -- it doesn't _require_ higher

RE: Video problems during 2.2 install

2000-06-06 Thread Larry Elmore
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote: > > I have a 20" fixed-freq monitor that uses a special Permedia2 video > > card. It works fine except for some DOS games that like > 640x480 > > resolution (like Harpoon 2 -- it doesn't _require_ higher res, but > > it's a whole _lot_

Re: Video problems during 2.2 install

2000-06-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote: > I have a 20" fixed-freq monitor that uses a special Permedia2 video card. It > works fine except for some DOS games that like > 640x480 resolution (like > Harpoon 2 -- it doesn't _require_ higher res, but it's a whole _lot_ nicer > wit

Re: Video problems during 2.2 install

2000-06-04 Thread Brad
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote: > > The Debian 2.2 boot disk apparently displays some graphic of a penguin when > it starts up the kernel (so I've been told). Weird, the standard i386 1.44M rescue.bin image doesn't have any sort of a logo, but the udma66 version has

Re: Video problems during 2.2 install

2000-06-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote: > I have a 20" fixed-freq monitor that uses a special Permedia2 video > card. It works fine except for some DOS games that like > 640x480 > resolution (like Harpoon 2 -- it doesn't _require_ higher res, but > it's a whole _lot_ nicer wit

Re: Video problems

2000-01-30 Thread paul
> I have tried to setup Caldera's linux x11 Windows for the first time and = > I am finding it imposible. Surely, someone can design a default = > configuration setup easier than this! I find it hard to believe that = > after two days I still cannot get a Window on the screen not even 16 = > colour

Re: video problems

1997-12-03 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I sent a note about this problem a week or so ago and got back some mailer > daemon error messages so I'm not sure it made it. I apologize if this is a > duplication. I'm having trouble with xdm. Every couple times the user > exits the window manager, the machine hangs with a black screen and r

Re: video problems

1997-11-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Carey" == Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carey> Jesse Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm having trouble with xdm. Every couple times the user exits the >> window manager, the machine hangs with a black screen and red and >> blue vertical lines. The only thing to do at this

Re: video problems

1997-11-30 Thread Carey Evans
Jesse Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having trouble with xdm. Every couple times the user exits the window > manager, the machine hangs with a black screen and red and blue vertical > lines. The only thing to do at this point is a hard reboot. This has > happened with a range of kernels