No video with mplayer and mplayer-plugin

[Robin Laing]

D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:52 -0400, R L wrote:

> 
> When you say no video, do you mean that you see a blue screen instead? I
> get that occasionally with mplayer, and I have no idea what causes it.
> The problem seems to be caused by mplayer, but once it's occurred no
> other video player (xine, gstreamer) works either. The only solution I
> have found is rebooting, which is absurd, but I haven't found any other
> way of getting it to work again. Logging out and logging back in again
> doesn't work, and neither does restarting X.
> 
> Best, Darren
> 

I have had this occur from time to time but I didn't need a reboot 
just to logout and back in again.  If I try a different driver it 
mplayer will still work.  I think the driver I use when this happens 
is xv.

I think it has something to do with the way mplayer writes to the 
video card.  It seems to corrupt the memory or a buffer some how.

-- 
Robin Laing