What does the mplayer log say?

Koala wrote:

Hello,

Video don't work on Karmic with smplayer, I tried with mplayer standalone and with the same codec (xv), it's ok.
Is a know issue ?

I have also had problems with mplayer in Karmic.
I've solved upgrading mplayer and smplayer fron rvm "testing" PPA repository:

https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/testing

Bye.

I have the same problem, can't play videos with smplayer using the xv driver in karmic. However, this definitely is not a problem in smplayer, but a problem which affects smplayer (along with other applications).

If I run kaffeine, dragon player or smplayer (using the xv driver), they all show the progress bar as if the video was playing. I can hear the video, but no image is displayed. If I run smplayer using the "gl" driver, it works. The other two, as far as I know, can't be configured to use other drivers.

If I run these applications with desktop effects on, the area where the video should be displayed is shown as a transparent gray rectangle. With desktop effects off, it is a solid black rectangle.

If I run mplayer or xine directly, without embedding them in a frontend like the ones listed above, they work ok with the xv driver. Gnome Player runs fine too.

I have created a new user to test this and with this new account I can run all the above mentioned applications with the xv driver and the videos are displayed ok.

So, there must be some problem with my regular user account's profile, but I have been unable to find out what configuration file(s) is causing this problem. There are too much customizations on this profile, so I would like to avoid recreating it from a fresh one, if possible. These problems didn't happen when I was using Jaunty.

Any idea on how to debug this?

Thanks,

Marcelo

Same for me, I have cairo-dock and it's know issue :
http://www.cairo-dock.org/ww_page.php?p … mp;lang=en

You can use gl2 codec or launch smplayer with :

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 && smplayer &