Ever since I installed Xorg 6.8.2, realplayer has ceased working.
Anyone else seeing something similar? (I must also add that mplayer is
much slower with 6.8.2, making me believe that there's a problem with
the way Xv is implemented.)

Elf

Elf M. Sternberg wrote:
> Ever since I installed Xorg 6.8.2, realplayer has ceased working.
> Anyone else seeing something similar?
I'm using Xorg 6.8.2-r1 with the original realplayer (not the one you'll
get with portage but from the real website) but dunno why I simply
haven't emerged it. (was probably masked or not there those days?!)

anyhow, I use it only to play rtsp (like news) and it works since
03/2004 without any problems under Xorg 6.8.x even though I upgraded
Xorg a couple of times since.

what version of realplayer are you using?
what exactly does not work? does it crash (how, when, under which
conditions)?
aren't there any error messages (when started from an XTerm)? simply
post them!

> (I must also add that mplayer is much slower with 6.8.2,
do you get a warning like "yr system is too slow to play this"?

what does 'much slower' mean at all?
if a movie has 25fps, how fast should it play in yr opinion??
i can encode a DVD with ~37fps to disk while watching it _at_ _the_
_same_ time with 25fps (=realtime) using xv without any problems on a
centrino 1500MHz!

btw - are you using mplayer or gmplayer?

> making me believe that there's a problem with
> the way Xv is implemented.)
that's in deed not true. since mplayer 1.x the xv-driver became default
(it was X11 before) because it should throw out the best results on most
machines.
I using mplayer since v0.62 on some ~120 production systems and since
v0.92 I've chosen xv as standard output driver. never had a problem.

have you tried other drivers/conditions?
example: how 'fast' ist yr mplayer when you run it on console (=no X at
all)? remember: this needs a working framebuffer.

what kind of media are you playing that is too slow?
DVD/VCD/SVCD/avi/mov/wmf/mpeg/rtsp??

what graphic card and env do you have?
gimme some benchmarks and facts instead of clues and we'll see where the
problem is!


gts
Matt