VLC problems

Juergen Lock nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Wed Sep 26 20:22:00 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 04:12:27PM -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 03:19:42 PM Juergen Lock wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:59:44PM -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote:
> > > 	HI,
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > I am having problems with vlc. Once executed it displays the gui however,
> > > when attempting to select file and play movie, it does not play. I
> > > provided some output that I found interesting. Let me know if you need
> > > anymore output.
> > > 
> > > V/r
> > > Derrick
> > > 
> > > 
> > > VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e)
> > > [0x80249ea58] skins2 interface: skin: eDark Vlc  author: aaron a
> > > [0x80249ea58] skins2 interface: skin: Unnamed Theme  author: OFursov
> > > [0x80249ea58] skins2 interface: new theme successfully loaded
> > > (/usr/local/share/vlc/skins2/148046-4colors.vlt)
> > > [mpeg4 @ 0x812486b20] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames
> > > detected [0x81ec333d8] xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo
> > > adaptor
> > 
> > Hm what video hardware and Xorg driver are you using there?  Does
> > xvinfo show anything?
> > 
> >  You could try selecting X11 video output in Tools -> Prefs -> Video
> > -> Output, or if that doesn't work try selecting SDL there (Simple
> > DirectMedia video output)  It's also possible you have too little
> > sysv shared memory, try these sysctls settings:
> > 
> > 	kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
> > 	kern.ipc.shmall=32768
> > 
> >  HTH,
> > 	Juergen
> > 
> > > writev(0xe,0x7fffff9faf20,0x6,0x18ad0,0x50,0x0)  = 48 (0x30)
> > > read(14,0x80c8152c0,8)                           ERR#35 'Resource
> > > temporarily unavailable'
> [...]

> 	Juergen,
> Thanks for your assistance. Selecting  X11 video output in Tools -> Prefs -> 
> Video > -> Output, did the trick. Just for FYI, I am using:
> 
> Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS 
> xorg-server-1.10.6_1,1         X.Org X server and related programs
> 
> kern.ipc.shmmax: 536870912
> kern.ipc.shmall: 131072
> 
Ah I guess then you're using the vesa driver?  Or are you actually
using the Intel KMS patches (now committed to 9.1 or head branches),
tho hat would be strange if those didn't support Xvideo...

	Juergen


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