[smpeg] Question

Chunky Kibbles chunky at icculus.org
Wed Feb 26 16:39:38 EST 2003


On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:49:35PM -0800, Cameron Mura wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  I've installed the MPEG player and its graphical frontend (gtv) from 
> the package "smpeg-0.4.4-3.i386.rpm". The application launches OK and 
> seems to run the movie (at least in the gtv dialog/progress window), but 
> the window that's supposed to display the actual movie is blank/black. 
> Any ideas as to why this may be?? I've tried various releases of the 
> smpeg RPMs, with same problem. Some maybe-relevant parameters:
>   Red Hat 8.0 (psyche), kernel 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002
>   ATI Radeon 8500 video card
> 
> I checked the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file for any errors associated with 
> running gtv, but found none. Also checked $HOME/.xsession-errors and 
> found a bunch of garbage/miscellaneous metacharacters like this:
> ^MCache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    ^MCache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    
> ^MCache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    ^MCache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    
> ^MCache fill:  0.00% (
> 
> I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions!

That smpeg is hideously old. Try grabbing the cvs from icculus.org
[linked from the front page] and trying again.

Gary (-;



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