[xine-user] Newbie: Why does Xv not work?

[Michael F. <fl...@it...>]

Hi everybody,

I am a complete newbie to xine.
I grabbed xine 0.4.3 and compiled it, which went without
any problems. However, xine refuses to show any video
output. I learned from the documentation that this is due
to a not properly working Xv extension. But now I am
puzzled: My Xv extension works perfectly well with
other programs -- most notably with vlc from the
videolan project. Although I usually run on 24bpp,
vlc with the Xvideo plugin automatically switches
to 16bpp, overlay mode and hardware accelerated
yuv -- fullscreen works just fantastically. So I am a bit
at loss here. Does xine have certain additional
requirements for Xvideo to work, and if so, why?

Does anyone know more about this Xv issue,
or can point me to information?

Here some info on my system:
IBM A20p with PIII 750 MHz, 256 MB ram,
ATI rage 128 mobility with 16 MB video ram.
The display is 1400x1050, usually on 24bpp.
I run SuSE 7.0 with 2.2.16 kernel and XFree 4.0.1.
The r128_drv.o module is from CVS and works great.
I do not have the drivers from the GATOS project,
but vlc seems to prove that you can perfectly do
without them.

There was no output whatsoever from xine to give
any hints. Are there options to get more detailed
output?

Michael