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boblight - issue #18

boblight-X11 doesn't work with vdpau enabled

Posted on Oct 4, 2011 by Happy Rabbit

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. start boblight-X11 2. start video with output option vdpau enabled (i tried both vlc and mplayer) 3. lights only show "black"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? rev 393, gentoo linux

Comment #1

Posted on Oct 5, 2011 by Quick Cat

This is a problem in the nvidia driver, try passing the -x flag to boblight-X11, if that still doesn't work there's nothing I can do about it.

Comment #2

Posted on Oct 5, 2011 by Quick Cat

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Comment #3

Posted on Jan 3, 2012 by Happy Lion

A possible 'fix' for this might be to set the environment variable

VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1

Status: WontFix

Labels:
Type-Defect Priority-Medium