All video players suddenly crash now

Xamindar

I just updated my gentoo system and then ran revdep-rebuild. All seems ok with the system except I can't play any videos any more. The following is what xine does if I attempt to launch it:

Kollin · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject:

ffmpeg and transcode are always the usual suspects for me ... try to rebuild them :wink:

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Xamindar · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:20 am Post subject:

It actually started working again for a while.....but now the same thing is happening again. All my video players crash immediately when opened. I tried re-emerging ffmpeg and even xine-lib and xine-ui but no change. Anyone know what is wrong here? I really suspect the ati drivers but I have no idea of how to figure it out.

desultory · Administrator Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 7061

If you suspect the video driver to be at fault, try a different driver (such as vga or vesa), if only for diagnostic purposes.

yngwin · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject:

Have you done a revdep-rebuild already?
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pathfinder · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

same for me.
I posted another post. Saw this one now.
All players crash.
also a corruption in gnome-panel and random X crashes.

Don t know where to look.

revdep-rebuild was ok. i tried several ati drivers, eselecting them too... no way.
no idea.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-690254-highlight-.html for the other post

Xamindar · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:12 am Post subject:

F-0_ICE · l33t Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 679

i have problems with both xine and mplayer as well.

all problems seem to stem from the xv and opengl drivers sine xshm works but has poor playback.

running xine and mplayer from the konsole work with xv strangely enough.

if i try to use the xv driver in xine-ui the video appears as a bunch of distorted horizontal colored lines. which makes no sense since i removed the config dir.

gmplayer works but pressing stop will crash it just like kaffeine.

i can't be too sure of anything with gmplayer if i open the setup and let it sit it will crash within a few seconds (10-15ish)

since both opengl and xv have issues i would point my finger at ati since if i set things to use xshm all problems go away even the above setup crash in gmplayer.

any input of this stuff?
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yngwin · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject:

First of all, you shouldn't use gmplayer. It's as good as deprecated. Either use mplayer from the commandline, or use a modern frontend, such as smplayer, gnome-mplayer or kmplayer.
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F-0_ICE · l33t Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 679

thanks for the advice i forgot to mention this but i do use a mplayer frontend: kplayer is my favorite

i only use gmplayer for troubleshooting purposes but if it deprecated I'll disable it.

EDIT: i haven't yet noticed any problems with kplayer
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Caleb9 · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 63 Location: PL & DK

I realise it's a very old issue but did anyone solve it? Just recently I started getting similar symptoms. Can't play any video files (avi etc.) because it crashes Xorg. Webcam causes the same thing. Can't say exactly when it started to happen as I don't watch videos on my computer too often but it's annoying. What log files should I check for more information? Thanks.

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:59 am Post subject:

Caleb9, if you are using ati-drivers 11.11 or 11.12 and your media players are configured to use Xv (XVideo) then that causes the X.Org Server to crash. It's a bug in Catalyst for Linux 11.11 and 11.12 (see Gentoo Bug Report No. 391193). A work-around for the time being is to go into Preferences in Xine, MPlayer, SMPlayer etc and select OpenGL instead of XVideo for the video output. Unfortunately there is no way (that I know of) to do this for Skype, so I can't use Skype with video at the moment. I just hope AMD fixes the FGLRX driver and version 12.x does not do this, as it's a pain.
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Caleb9 · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 63 Location: PL & DK

Fitzcarraldo thanks for your answer. Yeah I use 11.11, I guess I'll just go back to 11.10 for the time being then.