Bug#770665: libxvidcore4: Xvideo not working

[Herminio Hernandez, Jr.]

When I was running Ubuntu and Xubuntu this was not an issue. I just
yesterday moved to Debian Jesse. Below are my specs
rican-linux at debian-ppc:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock : 833.333000MHz
revision : 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
bogomips : 36.86
timebase : 18432000
platform : PowerMac
model : PowerBook5,6
machine : PowerBook5,6
motherboard : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15")
pmac flags : 0000001b
L2 cache : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Memory : 2048 MB

rican-linux at debian-ppc:~$ lspci |grep VGA
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] RV350/M10 [Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo]



On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo at debian.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:10:39AM -0600, rican-linux wrote:
> > Package: libxvidcore4
> > Version: 2:1.3.3-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> >
> >    I am having with mplayer and mpv using xv as my video out. I am
> getting
> > the following error [vo/xv] No Xvideo support found. When I run xvinfo I
> get this:
> > rican-linux at debian-ppc:~$ xvinfo
> > X-Video Extension version 2.2
> > screen #0
> >  no adaptors present
>
> This basically means that your video card/the drivers for your video card
> don't
> support xvideo. Or that it got somehow disabled (unless you messed with
> the Xorg
> configuration this is unlikely).
>
> > I tried to search the the net for a possilbe solution but I really could
> not
> > find anything.
>
> There isn't much you can do, except maybe buy a newer computer. What video
> card
> and driver are you using?
>
> In any case this is not a bug in mpv (or mplayer) and it probably also
> happens
> with VLC's xvideo output. Hence closing.
>
> Cheers
>
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