[linux-help] MPEG Video on Xfree -- no joy

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All.

I decided the time has come to expand the mutlimedia capabilities of
this workstation.  In short that means I want to play those #@$%$#@!
mpeg videos people keep sending!

I am running Debian Testing (Woody) at the moment and the packages are
reasonbly up-to-date.  The problem seems to be that all the mpeg players
are failing for the same reason, lack of support in the X server.

The most descriptive error message came after installing the
smpeg-plaympeg package and it reads as follows:

X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such
operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  145 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  16 (XF86VidModeGetGamma)
  Serial number of failed request:  17
  Current serial number in output stream:  17

The other two packages I tried, smpeg-gtv and the smpeg-xmms plugin for
Xmms each gave the following error:

 Gdk-ERROR **: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
   serial 17 error_code 1 request_code 145 minor_code 16

Which I assume is the same error message only reported through GDK (part
of GTK).

I am running mostly XFree 4.0.3, but the Xserver is still 3.3.6 as
apt-get didn't force the upgrade and I haven't taken the plunge yet.
Are these errors related to the old Xserver, or is there some option I
need to enable in XF86Config to make video playing work?

Thanks!

- Nate >>

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