[plug] Xine and Playback of VCDs

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Craig Ringer wrote:

> >>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.

I think it is kernel related BUT I'll install mplayer and try it in vesa mode,
see if it makes difference.

Yours Tony

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