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[Marcelo <mmtsales@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I've tried to run smplayer as indicated in that web page:
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
smplayer &

But the problem persists. If I select the "gl" driver it works, as I had mentioned in the bug report. However, it is slower than "xv "and if the video area of the smplayer window and the video being played are in different proportions, the extra space is filled with a transparent gray background, which is horrible. The other Qt applications do not offer an option to use other video driver, so they simply do not play videos.
Is there anything else I should test?

Thanks,

Marcelo

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Can't play videos in kaffeine, dragon player, gwenview and smplayer using the "xv" driver after running cairo-dock
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475375
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Status in “cairo-dock” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: cairo-dock

After running cairo-dock (with opengl support) in KDE 4.3.2 (Kubuntu 9.10), it is no longer possible to play videos in kaffeine, dragon player, gwenview and smplayer using the "xv" video driver. smplayer can still play videos if I switch to "gl" or "gl2" video drivers. I can hear the sound and the progress bar moves as if the video was playing, but there is no image. With desktop effects on, the area of the window where the video should be displayed in these applications is shown as a transparent gray rectangle. With desktop effects off, it is a solid black rectangle.

Strangely enough, mplayer and xine can still play videos using the "xv" driver if I run them directly, but not if embedded in the above mentioned front ends (and others).

Everything gets back to normal if I log out KDE and then log in again without running cairo-dock.

I have a nvidia 9600GT video card and am running the proprietary driver from ubuntu repos.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CompositingMetacity: No value set for `/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager'
Date: Thu Nov  5 10:14:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: cairo-dock 2.0.9-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
PciDisplay: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] [10de:0421] (rev a1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: cairo-dock
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
WM: No value set for `/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current'
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.31-14-generic