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Bug 621406 - media-video/ffmpeg-3.2.4: ffplay fails with "SDL: could not set video mode - exiting"
Summary: media-video/ffmpeg-3.2.4: ffplay fails with "SDL: could not set video mode - ...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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Reported: 2017-06-10 15:11 UTC by Nuno Silva
Modified: 2019-10-02 10:28 UTC (History)
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Description Nuno Silva 2017-06-10 15:11:17 UTC 
With media-video/ffmpeg-3.2.4, any attempt to play a video or a stream with ffplay fails, with the error

    SDL: could not set video mode - exiting

With media-video/ffmpeg-2.8.10, ffplay works as expected.
Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2017-06-10 20:18:33 UTC 
Does it work with the other versions?
Comment 2 Nuno Silva 2017-06-11 12:26:06 UTC 
ffplay from ffmpeg-3.3.2 (~amd64) does start and does not show that error, although it seems to be unable to play HLS streams as smoothly as ffmpeg-2.*.
Comment 3 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2019-10-02 10:28:29 UTC 
let's consider this fixed then, oldest version in tree is 3.4.6-r1