[MPlayer-users] black square when playing file

[Stefan Lange]

junk105 at optonline.net wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I have a redhat 8.0 system with a radeon 7500 video
> card, I installed the rpms and the win32 codecs but
> when I try and play a file all I get is a black
> square where the video should be. I have tried mpg,
> avi, divx, dvd and some other file types all with
> the same results. I chacked and made sure that I had
> the latest versions of all the packages mentioned. I
> tried using -vc ffmjpeg as stated in one of the FAQ
> questions but then the player crashed, I put the
> output of that below the first output. I tried
> compiling the latest from cvs with the same results.
> Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
> Ken
> junk105 at optonline.net
> 

maybe you're using a broken xv-driver? what X-version do you have installed?


regards
Stefan