mplayer has gone insane ( blue gui ? )

EatenByGrues · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

[img:66abbbae05]http://www2.latech.edu/~dmm019/mplayer_blue01.jpg[/img:66abbbae05]

I recently upgraded to mplayer 1.0_pre5 and now the gui is, well as you can see blue. The video plays fine (along with audio) but it won't fullscreen properly. I am using a radeon 7500 but not with the ati drivers. The video has all the correct colors its just the gui is blue and somewhat buggy.

(screenshot at http://www.latech.edu/~dmm019/mplayer_blue01.jpg )

the reason I upgraded was because the newest version of mplayer supports an audio codec that the older ones don't.

darksage · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 8

wow I dont get that on mine, you should trie re-emergeing or emerge -C mplayer && emerge mplayer

GenKreton · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:29 pm Post subject:

running the latest stable mplayer as of my sync ~2 hours ago and I do NOT get that.

EatenByGrues · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

well I did an 'emerge sync' ran 'emerge -C mplayer' and then re-emerged it. no luck, still all blue. Any idea at all what might cause this?

dimfox2 · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 24

I have exactly the same problem.
any help?

EatenByGrues · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

dimfox2 what type of video card are you using? what drivers? I just want to rule that out as the problem..

nex_tym · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 211

Seeing this also.

I compiled manually from source and problem went away. Used just ./configure --enable-gui

Window manager is gnome with metacity and ti 4200 video card.

Emerging again and going to change window manager and video drivers and see if that fixes it.

EDIT: Changing window manager and nvidia drivers to the default xfree ones doesn't change anything.

EatenByGrues · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

Compiling manually from source got rid of the 'blue effect' for me as well, but it still won't fullscreen.

GenKreton · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject:

I am running the same version no problems so there has to be some cause for this.

xfce4 and ati (9000 mobile) xorg native - fine
kahakai and nvidia (ti4600) proprietary drivers - fine

dimfox2 · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 24

morbid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 90

just a guess... but are all of you who have this issue running gnome? That screenshot looks like gmplayer. If so, see if mplayer is fine. Also, that isn't the 'blue' skin, is it?

EatenByGrues · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

I have already tried it with various skins and get the same effect (but yeah that is the Blue skin). Running plain old mplayer from the commandline doesn't change a whole lot either. I'm also not using gnome, I'm using pekwm (which is where the screenshot was taken). I tried doing an emerge -uD mplayer to see if perhaps if the problem was one of the dependencies, still no luck.

morbid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 90

Have you also removed /etc/mplayer.conf, /usr/share/mplayer, ~/.mplayer, and ~/.gmplayer (if you have that) after `emerge -C mplayer`?

You guys with the issues might want to compare the use flags listed by `emerge -pv mplayer` and your make.conf. Or, you can open a bug report and post it there.

singaya · n00b Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 13

Maybe it's xorg (xfree) problem? Do you have XShape support?? Check for

GenKreton · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject:

[ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5 -3dfx -3dnow +X +aalib +alsa -arts -bidi -debug -dga -directfb -divx4linux -dvb -dvd +encode +esd -fbcon -ggi +gif -gnome +gtk -ipv6 -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live +mad -matroska -matrox +mpeg -nas +nls +oggvorbis +opengl +oss +png +samba +sdl +sse +svga -theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2 -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid 0 kB

With those use flags mine is fine. See if yours differ in any way that could cause this.

EatenByGrues · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

Thanks! I added 'sse' to my USE variable, and I cleaned out all the old config files and now it works fine.

EDIT: the fullscreen problem has to do with the window manager turns out.

dh3rm3 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 101

dimfox2 · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 24

Me too, me too. :lol:

Re-emerged after adding the 'sse' flag.
The GUI is fine now.

pubecon · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject:

well I deleted the .mplayer directory and re-emerged (after emerge -C) using the sse useflag to no effect.

time for xine I think.

Bonkie · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject:

for mplayer-1.0_pre5-r3 i had to remove the sse use flag to remove the blue gui (i added the sse use flag in previous mplayer versions to remove the blue gui, funny).
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mattheweast · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject:

stalynx · Apprentice Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 162

I emerged mplayer-1.0_pre6 and i get the blue gui. I tried to reemerge with the sse flag but no difference. Everything works fine tho except the gui is blue... very odd.

mattheweast · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:59 pm Post subject:

yeah it's annoying

Maybe add your voice to the bug at #66666, as it would be nice to have some feedback from the devs on this.

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Zedicus · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 26

i had the same poblem (blue gui) under kde. for other reason switched to gnome and now it works without changing anything else. very strange...

mattheweast · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject:

And i'm using gnome...

perhaps I should switch to KDE!!

Add your experiences to the bug, I'm sure they will all be helpful for diagnosing the problem!!

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