mplayer and xv problem

[Łukasz Mierzwa]

Friday 22 of June 2007 18:05:55 napisałeś(-łaś):
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 14:43 +0200, Łukasz Mierzwa wrote:
> > Thursday 21 of June 2007 09:09:27 Michel Dänzer napisał(a):
> > > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:52 +0200, Łukasz Mierzwa wrote:
> > > > Wednesday 20 of June 2007 19:20:18 napisałeś(-łaś):
> > > > > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 17:26 +0200, Łukasz Mierzwa wrote:
> > > > > > I got Acer 5024 laptop with ATI Radeon X700, I'm now using
> > > > > > current git xf86-video-ati driver on gentoo box. When I watch
> > > > > > movies with mplayer and I minimize the video window it sometimes
> > > > > > goes white after restoring and the only way to get it to show my
> > > > > > movie is to switch to fullscreen. Does anyone got same problem? I
> > > > > > run KDE 3.5.6 with composite switched on in kwin, DRI is on and
> > > > > > running, EXA disabled so I use XAA.
> > > > >
> > > > > Which version of xserver?
> > > >
> > > > 1.3.0
>
> And the driver was built against that version? What does

I first upgraded to xorg-server-1.3.0 and after that I installed 
xf86-video-ati, I recompiled radeon driver few times after that using current 
git from repository: 
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati

> strings /path/to/radeon_drv.so | grep FillKeyHelper
>
> say?

strings /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so | grep FillKeyHelper
xf86XVFillKeyHelperDrawable
xf86XVFillKeyHelper

>
> > > > It happens with xv and x11 output, it's not white as I wrote, overlay
> > > > color key (color which is replaced by video) is filled with
> > > > background window (konsole or wallpaper and so). I need to switch to
> > > > fullscreen or just move the window. With xv the video area is filled
> > > > with background, with x11 only the part of window that is not filled
> > > > by video (like black horizontal borders that some movies have).
> > >
> > > It sounds like maybe mplayer ends up using an ARGB visual. Do the
> > > problems go away if you start it like below?
> > >
> > > XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 mplayer
> >
> > No, it's the same. But it sure is something with composite extension, if
> > I switch off composite support in kwin the problem goes away.
>
> I tried reproducing the problem with the KDE compositing manager but
> couldn't.

I compiled kaffeine and it works ok, maybe it's only mplayer? (I got lates 
from portage mplayer-1.0.20070427)

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Łukasz Mierzwa