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Old 17th April 2013
RJPugh RJPugh is offline
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Originally Posted by shep View Post
One assumes that you are using the KDE desktop and Xorg is working. Even if Xorg is working, if you are running FreeBSD you could be using the vesa driver, xf86-video-nv or the propriatary Nvidia. Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log will sort that out.
Xorg is working, and I do have KDE installed, though it's not my primary GUI. As for the driver, my computer (a Dell Inspiron 660) uses an Intel HD Integrated Graphics chipset. I've read in some other threads that the Intel chips are notorious for bad video playback in FreeBSD.

I'm still examining the Xorg.0.log file to see what else is going on.

Last night I re-installed several KDE components, including the multimedia ones, in hopes of fixing the problem that way. I now have three video players available - Dragon, Mplayer, and Kplayer - and none of them give a moving image. That's why I still suspect a codex issue, though now my chipset is under suspicion.

One strange thing is that audio, in every format I've tried so far, comes through just fine. Weird.
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