Xvideo and GeForce problem

[silencer]

I seem to have a problem with Xvideo and any GeForce powered card I have (a GeForce 1 DDR and a GeForce 2 Ultra). Any usage of Xvideo by avifile or xine results in a black screen, even when i just start xine without having it play a movie (should see the xine logo). Since avifile does this as well, it's not a player specific problem. I tried downgrading to 3123, but that didn't help. I also tried putting a TNT2 in, keeping the exact same configuration, and that _did_ work. So, all I can tell is that it has something to do with the GeForce and my Xvideo, but I have no idea what it could be. Has anyone else dealt with this before?

System:
Debian 3.0 unstable
Linux lafiel 2.4.20 #2 Thu Feb 20 15:51:38 EST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
XFree86 4.2.1-6
Visiontek GeForce 2 Ultra
Abit BM6 + Celeron 2 @ 800 w/256 MB

Whoops, forgot to add, if it wasn't apparent already, I'm using the 4191 drivers.

[silencer]

Anyone?

[Tarka]

I have the same issues with the above card; TNT2 works fine, Geforce fails with a blank window. Anyone know anything about this, or should I mail this to the bugs address?

[eDirch]

I've found out, that if you start xine or mplayer twice, you will get an image on the second xine/mplayer. Somewhere I've read a comment of a xine-developer, that this is an internal problem of the NVIDIA driver.

[Tarka]

Yeah, that works for me. Think I'll raise a bug and see if it'll get fixed by the next release.

Thanks.

[Tarka]

I had a look at the outputs from the two running xine instances and there seemed to be a mis-match between the brightness levels. I ran a single instance and went to the settings and pushed the saturation, brightness and contrast levels up to 50% and the picture appeared.

Looks like this may not completely be a driver issue, but a mismatch in assumptions between xine and the xv driver.

[Nuitari]

Originally posted by Tarka
I had a look at the outputs from the two running xine instances and there seemed to be a mis-match between the brightness levels. I ran a single instance and went to the settings and pushed the saturation, brightness and contrast levels up to 50% and the picture appeared.

Looks like this may not completely be a driver issue, but a mismatch in assumptions between xine and the xv driver.

I had this problems with G400 hardware, everything would be very dark and red only.

It occured mostly after using avifile to play some buggy divx.

It eventually fixed when I played Heroes of M&M3, but I don't know how it got fixed.

[Tarka]

Try using xine to fiddle with the hue setting? The game probably set it to some sensible value.

[eDirch]

Originally posted by Tarka
I ran a single instance and went to the settings and pushed the saturation, brightness and contrast levels up to 50% and the picture appeared.


Yeah, this is working for me too. Sometimes, things can be so simple. Thanks...

eDirch