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Old 18th April 2013
RJPugh RJPugh is offline
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Originally Posted by Beastie View Post
I don't know for other players, but mplayer lets you set the output video driver. Maybe it will help with your problem.

In ~/.mplayer/config, add vo=x11, or vo=gl2, etc.
Or run it with mplayer -vo driver testvideo.mp4.
This worked, by selecting the x11 driver. So far, it has worked on every video format I have. I haven't tried playing a DVD yet.

Mplayer works fine, obviously. One of my other players, KMPlayer, actually uses mplayer as a backend, so it works as well. If anyone else encounters this problem, among the preferences for KMPlayer there is a place for command line options to go with mplayer. I entered "-vo x11" and now it selects that driver automatically. I also set the driver within the appropriate config file, though it's probably not necessary to set both options.

Dragon is still posing problems, but I'll deal with that in time.

For a more permanent solution, I will be exploring the procedure described in Shep's Gentoo link.

Thanks everyone!
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