[plug] Xine and Playback of VCDs

[Craig Ringer]

>>I have Debian Woody and the Xine version that comes with the CD version. 
>>When I play VCDs with it a randomly get blue and coloured squares and also 
>>random crashes. With my old Cyrix 233 I could play them no problem except 
>>for the accasional video lag. My new computer is a Celeron 466 with 4Mb AGP 
>>Intel 3D graphics and a creative vibra sound card.
> 
> 
> It's a driver bug for the intel chipset :(

Hmm... XF86 bug or kernel bug?

Esp if its XF86, try using MPlayer with -vo vesa , its slower (MUCH) but 
should be ok on a decent machine. Of course this assumes non-buggy VESA 
2.0 BIOS support. You may need to change to a VC and back to X before X 
will show up correctly after playing it.

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