help sought with playing video (Valles Marineris)

[Kevin D. Clark]

Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 09:18 -0500, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> 
>>I get audio, but all I see for video is a black
>>window.  I'm using mplayer, because this seems to work better than
>>totem. 
> 
> 
> My own personal experience has been that I have the best luck of all
> with the player "xine".

Got it.  Either of these works pretty well:

	xine -V xshm valles3d.mpg
	mplayer -vo x11 valles3d.mpg

I haven't had a lot of luck with other video output drivers, although 
using the OpenGL driver is almost acceptable.

Cool.  Thanks for reminding me about xine.

--kevin
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