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May-C

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Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 83

xine is green and slow

Hello

If I try to start a video with xine, the video has a green tone and is sloooooooooooooooooow. Same thing if I use codeine (which uses xine). Kaffeine (which AFAIK uses xine too) works without any problem...

I found an old thread with a broken link to the solution http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40091 (Post 13)

Has anybody an idea what to do ?

azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: xine is green and slow

Not sure.  The only time that I've ever experienced a green screen problem with xine was when trying to play an mjpeg encoded file.  Anyway, the web page linked from that post is still in Google's cache - search for "green xine and a pegged cpu" - and describes the process the author followed to install the correct x.org driver for his video card in place of the vesa driver.  Maybe you need to get X sorted as a first step?  Otherwise, a further web search indicates that xine can also green screen when playing .avi files that are over a certain size and when playing X264 encoded video.