Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] XV bug?

[D Richard Felker III <dalias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 03:34:22PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> On Saturday 04 May 2002 04:18, Julian J. M. wrote:
> > Hi
> >     There is a problem with xv output. There is a black horizontal bar on
> > top of the image, and a thinner vertical bar on the left. It doesn't
> > happen with vo x11.
> >
> >     It's a new bug, since it didn't happen with recent (less than a week)
> > versions. BTW, i'm using the open nvidia driver and XFree 4.1.0 (no
> > kernel module)
> 
> I don't recall the open source nvidia driver does Xv support at all. If 
> you're 
> using an X86 machine and an NVidia card (TNT2 and above) why on earth would 
> you use the open source driver and not their latest binary driver? (which 
> seems to be very stable here on 4 machines)

Because some people object to nonfree software, for philosophical,
technical, legal, or security reasons. But this is not the place for
that discussion.

Rich