No video with mplayer and mplayer-plugin

[Julien Le Houérou]

Hi, I have this problem too, after having ran xawdecode(xawtv) on my 2nd 
screen. The only way to get mplayer to work on the main screen is to 
append -vo x11, but i don't get fullscreen mode. It appears that after 
running xawdecode on the 2nd display, there is a process in zombie state 
named "[play] defunct" that i can't kill at all. Yesterday i noticed 
that running xawdecode on the main screen and switching it off killed 
the process, and mplayer worked greatly again.

I find this strange, anyway it seems to be working that way...

Regards,

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Julien Le Houérou

Robin Laing wrote:

> 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.
>