MIT Xv extension in gxine.

[HermanDegenhart]

Hey everyone,
When calling up the Gxine Player and going to File/Configure and then to Re-run setup wizards, click next and a window appears with a list of System configuration checks. They are all green, so Oké, except for the last one, the Check for MIT Xv Extension. That one has a red point, telling us something is missing. In order to know, you click the details button and another window appears, telling us: Health Check Results, video_out_xv: No adaptors found. You can improve performance by installing an X11 driver that supports the Xv protocol extension. In the good old days systems use to propose the missing driver and asked permission to install it. But these were pre-modern days and long gone. So we have to figure out ourselves. Does anyone have an idea?
Before you propose, the package X11-utils cannot be the missing link as I have installed that package already. To give a clue, this problem only appears in Kubuntu and perhaps also in Mint, but not in Ubuntu. So what's in Ubuntu that's missing in Kubuntu? The health check talks about missing adaptors as well as a missing driver.

[askrieger]

Re: MIT Xv extension in gxine.

If you open Synaptic, you can find a meta-package called libxine1-x. It installs a whole bunch of stuff including something called libxv1. There's no MIT in the package name. You may not know that the X window system was developed at MIT, hence the MIT in the error message. However, I can't believe that you DON'T have libxine1-x installed. It's needed by all of the xine varieties that display on X displays (KDE, Gnome, or whatever). Therefore, I wonder if that's really the root of your problem. X11-utils IS displaying your error message, though.

[HermanDegenhart]

Re: MIT Xv extension in gxine.

Dear Askrieger, libxine1-x was already installed indeed, so something else must be missing.

[askrieger]

Re: MIT Xv extension in gxine.

Health Check Results, video_out_xv: No adaptors found.

Could this be hardware problem? It seems unlikely because the problem does not occur in either XP or Ubuntu. It is equally unlikely that you have the wrong video driver installed, because both Kubuntu and Ubuntu use the same hardware drivers, so if the driver works in Ubuntu, it should work in Kubuntu. However, could you tell us which hardware video card you have and which software driver you use.

[Rog131]

Re: MIT Xv extension in gxine.

Searching with the "Health Check Results, video_out_xv: No adaptors found."
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Post subject: Slack 12 & Gxine

-V, --video-driver <drv>
Select video driver. Check out xine --help for a list of avail-
able video output plugins on your system. This selection is
stored automatically in your ~/.xine/config so you'll have to
specify the video driver only once.

Here ~/.xine/config has :

# Videodriver to use (default: auto)
# { auto dxr3 aadxr3 xv XDirectFB DirectFB opengl SyncFB aa xshm caca none xxmc sdl fb xvmc }, default: 0
#video.driver:auto