Hello, On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Adam Jacob Muller <lists-mplayer-users at adam.gs> wrote: > Hi, > I'm getting no video (-fs gives black borders with the background > showing where video should be) with mplayer and with matroska- > containered x264 files > > I am using -vo xv and that works fine with other formats (avi/wmv/flv/ > mpg/others). > but with mkv files I get the errors below, if I switch to -vo x11 the > video does play, but with the associated huge performance issues. > > > > Any ideas at all would be hugely appreciated! > > Mplayer is: > MPlayer dev-SVN-r27673-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team Please SVN up, I think this problem is fixed. If it doesn't, then check if your graphic card has enough VRAM, and check what happens if you disable things like compiz/3d desktop effects... Guillaume -- One should not give up hope on imbeciles. With a little training, you can make them into soldiers. -- Pierre Desproges