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

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 5:39 AM, T Elcor <telcor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Sat, 8/4/12, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> T, can you please elaborate what display hardware and
>> drivers you use
>> so that we can reassign this bug appropriately?
>
> Sure, please see below.
>
> I'm OK with the way things are as VLC is working now and that's all I wanted in the first place. I don't have firmware-linux-nonfree installed, nor do I have any particular desire to install it.
>
>
> # lspci
>[...]
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
>[...]

> # uname -a
> Linux srv072 3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 28 09:07:26 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

That's interesting, because I wouldn't have expected a radeon HD 4200
to cause such problems. Just to be sure, are you using the 'radeon' or
'fglrx' driver? (or even some other driver?)

In any case, please attach the output of the command 'xvinfo',
'xdpyinfo' and ideally also the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log. That would
contain enough information for the maintainers of the respective
driver package to investigate the lack of XV further.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard