No Xv video with Xserver 1.9

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren]

Binary package hint: smplayer

Since the upgrade to xserver 1.9 in Maverick, smplayer has been unable to play any video using Xv as the Video output. The file still plays and I can hear the audio, but the section of the player that should have the video is transparent, and I can see the desktop beneath the window. The transparency is even in effect when in fullscreen.

Also, since gnome-mplayer is unusable due to a unfixed bug I reported over a month ago (#604902), I am left without a decent gui for mplayer. I am currently running mplayer from the commandline instead, but I am not happy about being forced to use it in such a manner.

Can someone please fix one of these players soon?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: smplayer 0.6.9-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.20-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 11 02:44:12 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: smplayer

[Nikola Yanev (gericom)]

the same is happening to me with mplayer and gnome-mplayer, but not with totem or gloobus-preview.
Thanx.

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

It appears this bug comes and goes. Right now, Xv appears to be working again. So this might be a hardware or driver issue.