On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: > I am lately experiencing some problems that I know are probably the fault > of the radeon driver (I've recently migrated from fglrx), I know that > doesn't belong to this list, however, I see this informative message in the > mplayer output, which as far as I remember, I've never seen before. > > [VO_XV] Could not grab port 63 xvinfo will show you port base and number of ports, MPlayer will try to grab and open one in the range from (port base) to (port base + number of ports - 1) Normally this will only fail if some other application is already using the same port (only exactly one application at a time can use a specific port). You could try -vo gl:yuv=2, though with my card and radeonhd driver it still only crashes - updating to 2.6.32 kernel might fix that but I haven't tried yet.
