Bug#672972: Wheezy: VLC player can't play videos

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 13:49:46 UTC 2012


On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Edward Wang
<edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com> wrote:
> VLC uses "XVideo Output (XCB)" (xcb_xv) as its default video output. The
> problem that you are having with xvideo is because your video drivers are
> buggy and don't support XVideo properly (prime example: VirtualBox XVideo
> and certain other binary blob drivers are buggy).

That's an excellent point.

T, can you please elaborate what display hardware and drivers you use
so that we can reassign this bug appropriately?


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard



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