From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Oct 14 9:18:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com [24.39.27.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D95B37B405 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 09:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9EGIl357735 for freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:18:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200110102006.f9AK6qZ08905@lurza.secnetix.de> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:18:47 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aviplay with 24-bit color depth? Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10-Oct-2001 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > Does anyone else have problems using aviplay at color depths higher > > than 16 bits? > > > > If I run X in 24 bits (savage driver on S3 Savage 4), I get no video, > > just a static, unmoving, completely scrambled display in the aviplay > > window. I can hear the audio OK as the video plays. > > I've had similar problems on my laptop (S3 Savage-MX chip, > 8 Mbyte VRAM): aviplay worked fine in 16bit, but didn't in > 32bit. Of course I wanted to use 32bit. I was using some > not-so-up-to-date XFree86 4.0.xxx version (don't remember > exactly). > > Well I finally decided to upgrade to the latest 4.1.0, and > guess what -- avifile worked fine in 32bit mode afterwards. > So I'd recommend that you check your XFree86 version and > upgrade, if necessary. Worked for me. Hmmm. I'm running the latest version of X from the ports collection, and still the same behavior. I get the same thing in mplayer unless I use the -vo switch to force a particular visual setting. Strange. I'm wondering if there may be some X module I should or shouldn't be loading. My XF86Config is pretty bare-bones at the moment. -- Conrad Sabatier Do something unusual today. Pay a bill. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message