Upgrading the video and/or monitor should have no effect on Xine, it uses the X and GL libs to draw to screen, so it's blissfully unaware of the hardware behind that.
As far as the cursor trails, it's fairly likely that what you're experiencing is a result of a problem in the video driver (in which case an upgrade to the latest might help). It could also be an X setting, most probably the latency or delay between cursor refreshes.
I've seen similar problems in many environments (incl. Windows), and it's almost always a problem with the video driver not performing it's xor/bitblt operation correctly.
==Joseph++
Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Thanks again for all the pointers, Joseph. I haven't gotten around to
> trying them yet.
>
> I just thought of something else though that is probably a contributing
> factor (I should have made this connection before now). I upgraded the
> video card and monitor on my system a month or two ago, so I'm guessing
> that the graphics card/monitor driver/settings is probably the culprit.
> Would re-installing xine or something possibly correct the problem?
>
>
> BTW, I have another problem with my video that I've simply been living
> with for the time being. Let me see if I can explain it.
>
> First of all, when I'm in a terminal window, everything is hunky dory.
> However, when I'm in a gui window (like Thunderbird Composer, for
> instance), pressing the arrow keys leaves 'trails' of the cursor
> (blinking vertical bar) when I move around the text. Then, when I begin
> typing again with 'normal' characters, the 'trails' go away.
>
> Is this likely a problem with my graphics configuration?
>
> The video card is EVGA e-GeForce 6200 (nvidia) AGP. lcpci shows:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 (rev
> a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Unknown device a341
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
> Memory at ce000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
> Memory at cd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Expansion ROM at cfee0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
>
> xorg.conf settings are:
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "single head configuration"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> FontPath "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "fbdevhw"
> Load "glx"
> Load "record"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "type1"
> Load "dri"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "ViewSonic"
> ModelName "VA2012wSERIE"
> DisplaySize 430 270
> HorizSync 30.0 - 94.0
> VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
> Option "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "nv"
> VendorName "EVGA"
> BoardName "nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 16
> Modes "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> Modes "1680x1050" "1280x800"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Group 0
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
>
> TIA for any (more) pointers.
>
>
> Joseph Sinclair wrote:
>> Start with VLC, if you can get the videos to play in VLC, then the
>> codecs are available, they just aren't setup in Xine.
>>
>> Check that the upgrade didn't replace the Xine renderer with GStreamer
>> or something similar. Sometimes that happens. If it did, you need to
>> reinstall all of the Xine support packages.
>>
>> If Xine appears to be installed and selected as the default rendering
>> library, then check that you're not using XGL/AIGLX, since the Win32
>> codecs don't currently work correctly in that environment.
>>
>> Try downloading the very latest FFMPEG library (compile it from CVS,
>> using the stable mark, not the daily snapshot). This adds a LOT more
>> codec support than the last released version, and it doesn't rely on
>> Win32 DLL files.
>>
>> Try installing the latest MPlayer and the MPlayer codecs package, even
>> if Xine doesn't work, this should (again, as long as you're not
>> running XGL or AIGLX).
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> ==Joseph++
>>
>> Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>>> Thanks for the ideas, Joseph.
>>>
>>> I tried playing some mpeg and wmv files from '03 and they don't play
>>> either.
>>> What next?
>>>
>>> Joseph Sinclair wrote:
>>>> It's more likely that the new videos use new WMV codecs or require a
>>>> "phone-home" call to play. WMV an "evolving" format, meaning that MS
>>>> modifies it every 6 months or so to ensure it won't be reliably
>>>> playable on any platform except Windows. The modifications are
>>>> generally nothing more than a new FourCC, a slight packet header
>>>> change, and some additional options for restricting content, but they
>>>> don't play on the old codecs, so you have to "upgrade" a Windows
>>>> machine, then pull in the new codec DLL to get it to play. If the
>>>> videos require a "Phone Home" check, they won't play anywhere except
>>>> Windows, no matter what you do.
>>>>
>>>> Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>>>>> I used to have xine set up on FC5 working nicely. I had to install the
>>>>> wmv codecs for it to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some time ago I noticed that wmv files weren't showing video any more.
>>>>> Not a big deal, as I only use it to view an occasional email
>>>>> attachment
>>>>> now and then.
>>>>>
>>>>> wmv files seem to play ok, no errors that I see, audio plays, just no
>>>>> video. I'm guessing that a FC5 upgrade might have broken something.
>>>>> Any
>>>>> ideas what direction to look for a fix?
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>
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