I have xorg-x11-6.8.1.902. Every time I watch a video file, no matter which format or codec, the video flickers and the color is distorted. This happens with both xine and mplayer. When I instructed gstreamer not to use xv, the video worked fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 31 2004, 14:46:37)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/ http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X X509 acpi alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzlib cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt ctype cups dga divx4linux doc encode foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml hal i8x0 icq imagemagick imlib jpeg jpeg2k kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mono mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg msn ncurses nls nomotif nowin nptl offensive opengl pam pdflib perl pic png python qt readline real sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd tetex threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xine xml xml2xv xvid zlib video_cards_i915 linguas_he" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
It works well with xorg-6.8.2. Perhaps this bug could be closed now...
Few more checks indicate that the problem persists, but only on kde, and only when xv is used.
These problems probably mean that Xv is not used correctly by an app, or that it is used by more than one app in conflicting ways, or something like that... (do you have composite enabled, btw?) I don't think we can do much to help...
I tried it when only one video program was running. I don't have composite enabled. I don't think that the program uses Xv incorrectly, because mplayer shows video well under failsafe, but not under kde. Therefore I think it is a kde problem.
Today I tried to kill kooldock. For some reason, before I killed kooldock the problem persisted. After I killed it the problem disappeared. Any idea why this has happened?
Probably this was kooldock uncorrectly using Xv... in any case, I don't think we can do much to help.
