Is there a package I should install to use xine embedded in other applications?

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 10:17:35 UTC 2009


2009/11/4 Marcelo Magno T. Sales <mmtsales at gmail.com>:
> Em Terça-feira 03 Novembro 2009, Marcelo Magno T. Sales escreveu:
>>
>>  I
>>  have just noticed that mplayer is unable to use the "xv" video
>>  driver when it is ran by this user, but it can when it is ran by the
>>  test user I created. Strange... I was able to use the "xv" driver in
>>  mplayer before upgrading from jaunty to karmic.
>
> Sorry, this is not correct: I can run mplayer with the xv driver if I
> run mplayer directly, but it does not work if I run it embedded in a
> frontend (in smplayer, to be precise). If I run smplayer with the xv
> driver selected, it shows a progress bar as if the video is playing, but
> nothing is displayed, just like kaffeine and dragon player do. However,
> I can see the video if I run smplayer with the "gl"driver.
>

Could it be something with your KDE desktop? Have you tried without
desktop effects? Can you watch the movies if you login with for
example fluxbox?

/ Jonas




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