On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:02:03 +0100, Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote: > 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). As far as I know there's nothing else using xvideo. Besides the regular bunch of daemons, there's only seamonkey and a lot of rxvt-unicode clients running, well, and openbox or fvwm depending on the day. > 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. Trying this at the moment and it seems to perform better. I am using linux 2.6.32 with radeon, libdrm and mesa from current git. kms is enabled if that matters, opengl seems to work worse without it. -- Jes?s Guerrero
