Translucent or Black Video

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren]

Binary package hint: gnome-mplayer

After upgrading to Maverick, gnome-mplayer doesn't work properly anymore. When using XV for video output, the video is just black, but I can still here the audio playing in the background. Also, when us GL output, the video is partially transparent; I can see windows and icons that are beneath the gnome-mlayer window. This struck me as very odd. If I drop from compiz into metacity, the GL Video is normal again (although it seems to have a good deal of tearing), but XV still shows only black.

I don't think this is caused by mplayer, because calling mplayer from commandline renders properly with both XV and GL.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-mplayer 0.9.9.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-1.1-generic 2.6.35-rc1
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 8 22:23:48 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-mplayer

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This is likely to be a video driver issue, can you check what happens with mplayer alone and/or any other media-player?

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren (ripps818)]

@Cesare
I guess you didn't read my description, I already said mplayer alone worked fine.

Besides, I think I know what's causing it. Maverick enabled rgba gtk+, and it seems that the that's what's messing with it. Everything works correctly again when I run gnome-mplayer with LIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Which is a video driver issue ...
Kevin may (or may not) decide to use the workaround.

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