Bug#459431: with Depth 16, blank display with playing video file

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.or.jp> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:29:41 +0100
>  Michel Dänzer <daenzer at debian.org> wrote:
>  > > >  Version: 1:6.8.0-1, I can play videos with mplayer if I use "x11", "gl"
>  > > >  and "gl2" plugin for video.
>  > > >
>  > >
>  > > All this is true using Depth 16 ? The bug is fixed then, right ?
>  >
>  > I'm afraid not, as the bug is about XVideo.
>
>   All of above (and "aa" video output :) works in Depth 16.
>   But with "xv", it can't.
>

What sort of video are you trying to play?  is it a packed or planar
format?  if it's planar does the following help?
mplayer  -vf yuy2

Alex