Weird Mplayer GUI Problem?!

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kalestic · Post by **kalestic** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:55 pm

This is something new I haven't came across before. Anyways, when I run gmplayer, the mplayer GUI. The gui doesn't retain its regular colors. Everything is blue.

Here is a screenshot of it:http://img146.exs.cx/img146/6791/200504 ... rot9vk.png

In addition to that, the keybindings don't seem to work either? For example, when i press 'f' to full screen the movie or show, it goes full screen but then goes back to its regular size?
Has anyone had a problem like this with gmplayer?

Could it be that i am using the nvidia kernel? Because I just recently got direct rendering to work on my computer and prior to re-building my system and emerging the nvidia-kernel--I didn't check gmplayer before i emerged the nvidia kernel-- it use to work fine?

Any suggestions?

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:59 am

Whoa. I use the latest unstable version (1.0-pre6-r2) and I have the latest unstable nvidia driver and to say the least I don't have those issues at all. You did say direct rendering though...

Can you post...

-Specs
-Graphics card and modules section in xorg.conf
-Mplayer version

...please

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Crucis · Post by **Crucis** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:09 am

Weird.. though i am running the latest unstable version without any problem

tlailax · Post by **tlailax** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:42 am

question : does the normal mplayer work (without the gui i mean)

maybe this will help. this is my use flags combination for mplayer. works here.

media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r2 -3dfx +3dnow -3dnowex +X +aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts +avi +bidi +cdparanoia -debug -dga +directfb +divx4linux +doc +dts +dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread +edl +encode +esd +fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0 -ipv6 -jack +joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -lzo +mad +matroska -matrox -mmx -mmxext +mpeg +mythtv +nas +nls +nvidia +oggvorbis +opengl -oss +png +real -rtc +samba +sdl -sse -sse2 -svga +tga +theora +truetype +v4l +v4l2 +xanim +xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid +xvmc

i know it's not a solution, but from my experience the mplayer gui has always been quite buggy (even though it seems to be working now). i would suggest you go with kmplayer as a gui for mplayer. imo a much better frontend.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:07 am

kalestic wrote:This is something new I haven't came across before. Anyways, when I run gmplayer, the mplayer GUI. The gui doesn't retain its regular colors. Everything is blue.

Here is a screenshot of it:http://img146.exs.cx/img146/6791/200504 ... rot9vk.png

In addition to that, the keybindings don't seem to work either? For example, when i press 'f' to full screen the movie or show, it goes full screen but then goes back to its regular size?
Has anyone had a problem like this with gmplayer?

Any suggestions?

I don't believe this is an nvidia problem. I also have the blue gui and the problem with the 'f' key. Additionally the space key doesn't seem to work.

Here is what I am using:

ati mobility
media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5 [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5 -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowex +X +aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts +avi -bidi -cdparanoia -debug -dga -directfb -divx4linux -doc -dvb -dvd -dvdread -edl +encode +esd -fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0 +ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -lzo +mad -matroska -matrox -mmx -mmxext +mpeg -mythtv -nas -network +nls -nvidia +oggvorbis +opengl +oss +png -real -rtc +samba +sdl -sse -sse2 +svga -tga -theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2 -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv -xvid -xvmc 0 kB

I'll upgrade later tonight and see what happens

Good luck,

Buzz

kalestic · Post by **kalestic** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:35 am

My Graphics card is: Nvidia TNT2 RIVA 32MB

Here is my Xorg.conf

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ukr/"	
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "dbe"
#	Load  "dri"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
	Option	"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  300   230	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "DEL"
	ModelName    "DELL 1501FP"
	HorizSync    31.0 - 60.0
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"             	# [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"         	# <i>
        #Option     "FPScale"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"            	# <i>
	Option "RenderAccel" "1"
	Option "UseEdidFreqs" "1"
	Option "NvAGP" "1" 
	Option "NoLogo" "1" 
	Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
	BoardName   "NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro]"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
	Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 16
	DefaultColorDepth 16	
SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Mplayer version i am using is:MPlayer 1.0pre5try2-3.3.5

Oh yes and also, mplayer works fine, but it is gmplayer that is giving me the troubles!

Level52 · Post by **Level52** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:21 pm

I have the same problem with gmplayer (fullscreen with "f" and pause with space not working properly). It started after I upgraded the Kernel from 2.6.7 to 2.6.12-rc1. I'm not sure what the problem is. Perhaps a timing issue.

The two keys still work properly when the interface window (the one with the buttons) has focus.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:40 am

Level52 wrote:I have the same problem with gmplayer (fullscreen with "f" and pause with space not working properly). It started after I upgraded the Kernel from 2.6.7 to 2.6.12-rc1. I'm not sure what the problem is. Perhaps a timing issue.

The two keys still work properly when the interface window (the one with the buttons) has focus.

I have finally emerged a later version and it did fix my problems with the keys (mplayer-1.0_pre6-r2). As noted in an earlier post, changing from 16 to 24 depth in my xorg.conf fixed the blue skins. This is not an answer if you don't/can't run that way. Perhaps this will change in the future.

Good luck,

Buzz

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:33 am

Yes, that might be the issue Buzz. Sometimes if you use a default color depth that is lower than 24 bit (16 bit in this case), the colors aren't properly rendered on screen. Please try 24 bit.

kalestic · Post by **kalestic** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:42 pm

Niice, changing to depth to 24 fixed the blue issue. But I still have the keybinding issue where i press 'f' to go full screen but it like hits it twice. It goes full screen then comes back to normal? Any suggestions for this problem?

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:01 am

kalestic wrote:Niice, changing to depth to 24 fixed the blue issue. But I still have the keybinding issue where i press 'f' to go full screen but it like hits it twice. It goes full screen then comes back to normal? Any suggestions for this problem?

Lower key repeat rate

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MrBrightside · Post by **MrBrightside** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:26 am

yaneurabeya wrote:Lower key repeat rate ?

That can't be it because I am having the same problem and didn't change anything. Mplayer just stopped accepting the f and space shortcut keys. Probably just an error with the stable version though.

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:26 am

Have you tried nuking your preferences (make sure to save any alsa stuff if you have dmix setup first though)?

placeholder · Post by **placeholder** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:04 pm

Add "nvidia" to USE. I noticed it missing in Buzz's output of `emerge -vp mplayer`.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:50 am

Pwnz3r wrote:Add "nvidia" to USE. I noticed it missing in Buzz's output of `emerge -vp mplayer`.

That's because I use an ati video card on that machine.

The effect seems unrelated to the brand of video card being used, or at least it appears to affect both brands.

Cheers,

Buzz

Note: The process that I went through that got rid of the key issues was to:

1. unmerge mplayer
2. move all my settings for backup (/etc/mplayer.conf and the version in my home directory)
3. set the ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords
4. emerge -uavD xine-ui xine-lib mplayer

I can't say that emerge xine-ui or xine-lib did anything, I only include it because it is part of what I did.

Good luck!!

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:22 am

Note color depth being an issue and try a different video output driver than you are currently using.

kalestic · Post by **kalestic** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:28 am

Buzz - I took your advice and did all your steps

1. unmerge mplayer
2. move all my settings for backup (/etc/mplayer.conf and the version in my home directory)
3. set the ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords
4. emerge -uavD xine-ui xine-lib mplayer

But still have no luck. Any other ideas? I thought it might have been the kernel or something, so I changed it from the dev-sources to the ck-source. But still the same result

Level52 · Post by **Level52** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:27 pm

I just emerged a new version (1.0_pre6-r4) and the key problem is fixed.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:19 am

kalestic wrote:Buzz - I took your advice and did all your steps
1. unmerge mplayer
2. move all my settings for backup (/etc/mplayer.conf and the version in my home directory)
3. set the ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords
4. emerge -uavD xine-ui xine-lib mplayer
But still have no luck. Any other ideas? I thought it might have been the kernel or something, so I changed it from the dev-sources to the ck-source. But still the same result

I'm at a loss... sorry

perhaps just check that you are running media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r2 ...

Good luck,

Buzz

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