Hi, I have this problem too, after having ran xawdecode(xawtv) on my 2nd
screen. The only way to get mplayer to work on the main screen is to
append -vo x11, but i don't get fullscreen mode. It appears that after
running xawdecode on the 2nd display, there is a process in zombie state
named "[play] defunct" that i can't kill at all. Yesterday i noticed
that running xawdecode on the main screen and switching it off killed
the process, and mplayer worked greatly again.
I find this strange, anyway it seems to be working that way...
Regards,
--
Julien Le Houérou
Robin Laing wrote:
D. D. Brierton wrote:
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:52 -0400, R L wrote:
When you say no video, do you mean that you see a blue screen instead? I
get that occasionally with mplayer, and I have no idea what causes it.
The problem seems to be caused by mplayer, but once it's occurred no
other video player (xine, gstreamer) works either. The only solution I
have found is rebooting, which is absurd, but I haven't found any other
way of getting it to work again. Logging out and logging back in again
doesn't work, and neither does restarting X.
Best, Darren
I have had this occur from time to time but I didn't need a reboot
just to logout and back in again. If I try a different driver it
mplayer will still work. I think the driver I use when this happens
is xv.
I think it has something to do with the way mplayer writes to the
video card. It seems to corrupt the memory or a buffer some how.
