[xine-user] Subtitles killed by video.driver:xvmc?

[Ted G. <bos...@ve...>]

I have the following configuration:

    SuSE 9.1, kernel 2.6.5
    Nvidia 5200 with drivers from Nvidia
    xine_lib_1_rc5
    xine_ui_0.99.2

At some point on-screen text, in particular subtitles, but also 
on-screen information display,  stopped working.  I fond that I could 
get it working again by removing ~/.xine, but they would eventually go 
away again.  After some trial and error I found that the thing that 
killed it was specifying a video driver on the command line:

    xine -V xvmc

This writes an entry into the ~/.xine/config file:

video.driver:xvmc

which persists, even if xine is subsequently invoked without the -V 
option.  Commenting this line out restores on-screen text provided xine 
is subsequently invoked without -V xvmc.  So far as I can tell, the 
option isn't required; it doesn't seem to make any difference in the 
quality of the playback and the CPU utilization is about the same, as 
best I can tell.

Has anyone else seen this, or do I have further strangeness in my 
environment as yet unearthed?  Is this behavior expected?  Is there some 
connection between text display and the video driver?  It's not really a 
problem now that I know about it, but it does seem odd.

Thanks.