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

["Sudharsha" <adithya@xxxxxxxxx>]

HI,
Man there is a player in the sunsite it seems.
Haven't you tried that .
But I think you have to install jdk for that but still I've heard that it is 
good.
well let me try it and let you know .
Keep in touch.
Sudharsha.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nate Bargmann 
  To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:22 AM
  Subject: [linux-help] MPEG Video on Xfree -- no joy



  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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