Re: watching an avi

From: Basajaun (isilanes_at_bluebottle.com)
Date: 09/19/05

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    Rick Pasotto wrote:
    > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:42:14PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
    > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:48:26PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
    > > > System:
    > > > KM4M-V motherboard with onboard video using via driver
    > > > 1-gig of ram (using less than 300mb)
    > > > Running testing so have switched to X-org
    > > >
    > > > Most of the time I can watch avi videos using xine with no problem, even
    > > > full screen. Sometimes xine runs but the display window remains black
    > > > and the sound plays fine. At least once when this happened I was able to
    > > > view the avi with kaboodle after which xine then worked properly.
    > > >
    > > > Now xine, kaboodle, and noatrun are all failing.
    > >
    > > Try maplayer, also install from the same marillat site the win32 codex
    >
    > How will that either solve or analyse the problem?

    If your problem isn't not being able to play a video, then, logically,
    mplayer won't help, no. Yes, I am being sarcastic.

    Antonio's answer is helpful because:

    1) It might solve your problem. Mplayer could actually be able to
    suceed where others failed.

    2) It might help analyze the problem, e.g.: if mplayer w/o win32 codecs
    can't play your video, but w/ them it can, then the problem is missing
    codecs. If Mplayer, be it w/ or w/o codecs, can play the video, then
    the problem is on the other playes. OTOH, if mplayer also fails, the
    problem could be either X.org or a corrupted video or... God knows.

    It might help "analyzing" the problem, if you stated it more clearly,
    like, for example, if the players fail with a given new video, or they
    also fail with videos that the had "always" been able to play.

    Maybe it's a silly question, but from:

    > unix_connect: can't connect to server
    > (unix:/tmp/mcop-rick/mnr_niof_net-7c4f-432ca596)

    I'd make the wild guess that maybe your /tmp is full? Either that or
    maybe the $DISPLAY is set wrong (another wild guess)?

    Does it help to "killall artsd" before running the player? I ask it
    because of the following, although kaboodle seems to be handling it
    correctly:

    > There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active...
    >... cleaned 5 unused mcop global references.

         Basajaun

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