[mythtv-users] mplayer & blue screen

[Emlyn.Bolton at nokia.com]

I think you need to include the relevant USE variable settings in /etc/make.conf
When mplayer is emerged, it uses this to figure out what it should support.  If you want to see what flags it uses, do a:

emerge -vp mplayer

and you'll see all the USE flags that can be turned on or off.

If you want to enable the MMX / SSE support, make sure these are defined and re-emerge mplayer.

The blue screen issue I've seen when you open an Xv context and the graphics board doesn't support it.  I think it uses the blue to feed to the graphics card, so that it knows what area of the screen it can place the decoded video onto but I'm not altogether sure.  Either way, you should check the video settings to make sure that the output you're using is supported by your graphics set up and the blue screen should be replaced by your favourite movie!

Emlyn

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of ext Mike Wood
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:05 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] mplayer & blue screen


Gang,

I've been trying Gentoo for the first time and have been fighting a solid blue screen issue.  I just noticed that I get the blue screen in mplayer just like in myth and mplayer spits out a bunch of stuff before it starts playing...including this:

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:

I'm guessing I messed up my Kernel compile?  and that's why MMX etc...is supported but disabled?

Also, I see this message further down....

Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: No accelerated IDCT transform found
libmpeg2: No accelerated motion compensation found
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 352x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))

Does any of this shed any light on why I have a blue screen instead of video.

Thanks for Help...I'm a newbie when it comes to this video stuff...especially with Gentoo.

Mike