Mplayer goes black in Freevo

swatcat · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 4

As said in topic.

Mplayer works fine in wmaker. But in Freevo when i start playing anything, the screen goes black and with no sound.
I have tried 2 versions of Freevo, in the older one there was a little square up in the left corner. Perhaps about 1x2 cm big. I'm not sure but I'd guess that, that would be the picture, since it changes it's color. In the newly emerged freevo version I don't see it because i probobly haven't configured the right resolution since i don't see it all.

freskog · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 8

I had this problem as well. I needed to modprobe the tuner (if you don't
get any picture for the TV). Other than that, try removing the software
scaler in the local_config.py (the .py file in /etc/freevo).

/Fredrik
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freskog · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 8

One more thing that can upset your day is setting :

START_FULLSCREEN_X = 1

in /etc/free/local_conf.py. This caused the same symptoms as you described
for me as well.

After I changed that to :

START_FULLSCREEN_X = 0

It started working.

/Fredrik
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