pkg-multimedia-maintainers Digest, Vol 66, Issue 9
Edward Wang
edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com
Sat Aug 4 12:34:32 UTC 2012
On 12-08-04 04:51 AM,
pkg-multimedia-maintainers-request at lists.alioth.debian.org
<pkg-multimedia-maintainers-request at lists.alioth.debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:17 AM, T Elcor<telcor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >I was able to get VLC working by removing some old obsolete libraries and setting "Video Settings" | Output to "X11 Video Output (XCB)"
>> >
>> >If the output is set to Default, VLC hangs.
>> >
> I may be confused, but I was under the impression that "X11 Video
> Output (XCB)" was the default video output. Can you please check what
> video output vlc uses when you configure it to "Default"?
>
> -- regards, Reinhard
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).
Regards,
Edward Wang
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