mplayer has gone insane ( blue gui ? )

[EatenByGrues]

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]

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

[GenKreton]

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

[EatenByGrues]

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]

I have exactly the same problem.
any help?

[EatenByGrues]

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

[nex_tym]

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]

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

[GenKreton]

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]

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

nvidia
driver is the newest one, 1.06 something, sorry not on my getoo box now
anyway, I emerged it with "~x86" keyword.

[morbid]

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]

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]

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]

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

Code: Select all

Section "Module"

blablabla

SubSection "extmod"
     Option "omit xfree-dga"
EndSubSection

blablabla

EndSection

If you don't have it try adding, if you have that comment out it. Maybe that will give us some more clues. [/code]

[GenKreton]

[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]

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]

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

I confirm
I compiled mplayer-1.0_pre5 full screen does not work under pvm, while it works perfectly under fvwm
Hope this will get fix soon ... I don't want to quit my pekwm
for the time being I'm back to -pre4-r5 wich works fine under pekwm

[dimfox2]

Me too, me too.
Re-emerged after adding the 'sse' flag.
The GUI is fine now.

[pubecon]

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]

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).

[mattheweast]

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

Nope doesn't help here either!! This is infuriating... I've tried lots of reemerges, and have added a post to bug #66666, but it looks like it's not gonna be dealt with.

Anyone else have any ideas about what might be causing this problem? Here is my info:


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2005
(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
.='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move'
s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
...........
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -ftracer -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -ftracer -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa audio avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt divx4linux dvd dvdread encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib jpeg libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oggvorbis pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline real sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"

Thanks for any help!

M

[stalynx]

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]

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.

M

[Zedicus]

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]

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!!

M