Problem playing DVDs in FC2

littleguru littleguru at sympatico.ca
Mon Jun 21 13:07:06 UTC 2004


you can use ogle dvd player , it works for me fine, try it


Motor wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:16:49 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
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>>can you try the following :
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>>#	Load  "glx"
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>I've been experimenting with changes, and here's some more info:
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>I undid the changes you suggested (removing the glx module) so I'm back
>with the xorg.conf I started with.
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>I tried starting X with just an xterm (no GNOME or even window manager)...
>and playing DVDs using the XVideo extension worked fine. I gradually added
>in bits of things (running the gnome-panels manually and lots of large
>apps) and nothing provoked a failure -- until I ran either ROX desktop or
>Nautilus, but *only* when they were used to draw the desktop, and *only*
>the desktop had a large image as a wallpaper. I tried loading the same
>image up into GIMP, but couldn't cause the failure.
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>So, I restarted X as normal, which loaded up the full GNOME desktop... and
>sure enough the DVD playback failed again. My standard Nautilus setup has
>a "Vertical gradient" as it's wallpaper (which I assume counts the same as
>a largeish image). So I set the wallpaper to "Solid" and DVDs playback
>works.
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>Now I can reliably cause the Allocation error in two ways:
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>1. Run XMMS before playing (removed all plugins and visualisation stuff
>just in case)
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>2. Set Nautilus to have a vertical gradient backdrop, or a large
>wallpaper.
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>Closing XMMS or setting off the Nautilus backdrop image allows it to work.
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>I'm not sure what to make of it. Clearly something has changed since FC1,
>and clearly whatever it is XMMS and Nautilus wallpaper are doing something
>that eats big chunks of space that the XVideo extension requires... but
>where exactly the fault lies I'm not sure -- is it in the new X.org, since
>it wasn't a problem in the FC1 version of XFree86? Has anyone got any
>more ideas... like where is the best place to report the bug in redhat's
>bugzilla.
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