Fwd: Re: CFT: vlc 2.0.8 (with two PRs applied)

[Juergen Lock]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 07:58:23PM +0200, Florent Peterschmitt wrote:
> Le 29/08/2013 19:46, Juergen Lock a écrit :
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 06:10:01PM +0200, Florent Peterschmitt wrote:
> >> Reading a video with new xorg, is not possible. The first "picture" is
> >> displayed and VLC hangs on.
> >>
> > Is this using intel kms?  radeon kms?  Seems at least radeon kms doesn't
> > do xv with all cards yet, and vdpau even less so:
> > 
> > 	https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU
> 
> I don't use any of them, but It's an ATI card.
> 
Hmm maybe you are and don't know it?

> However, I *can* read videos with these outputs:
> 
>  * SDL
>  * X11 (XCB)
> 
> It's the Xvideo output that makes VLC hanging, and Xvideo was chosen for
> the "predefined" output.
> 
> Hum, do you know why VLC does choose this one by default?
> 
 Because it's supposed to work if it's available, if it doesn't work
it's a video driver bug.

 Thanx, :)
	Juergen