xv driver problem [solved]

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Terça-feira 03 Novembro 2009, Marcelo Magno T. Sales escreveu:
> People,
> 
> Since I upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic, I have the following problem
> when playing videos with the xv driver:
> 
> If I run kaffeine, dragon player or smplayer (using the xv driver),
>  they all show the progress bar as if the video was playing. I can
>  hear the video, but no image is displayed. If I run smplayer using
>  the "gl" driver, it works. The other two, as far as I know, can't be
>  configured to use other drivers.
> 
> If I run these applications with desktop effects on, the area where
>  the video should be displayed is shown as a transparent gray
>  rectangle. With desktop effects off, it is a solid black rectangle.
> 
> If I run mplayer or xine directly, without embedding them in a
>  frontend like the ones listed above, they work ok with the xv
>  driver. Gnome Player runs fine too.
> 
> I have created a new user to test this and with this new account I
>  can run all the above mentioned applications with the xv driver and
>  the videos are displayed ok.
> 
> So, there is some problem with my regular user account's profile, but
>  I have been unable to find out what configuration file(s) is causing
>  this problem. There are too much customizations on this profile, so
>  I would like to avoid recreating it from a fresh one, if possible.
>  These problems didn't happen when I was using Jaunty. My video card
>  is a nvidia 9600 GT and I'm running the proprietary drivers from
>  ubuntu's repos. I've installed kubuntu-restricted-extras and have
>  the medibuntu repository enabled.
> 
> Any idea on what may be causing this?

Problem solved. I had cairo-dock (with opengl) configured to autostart 
when I logged in KDE. After executing cairo-dock, the xv driver no long 
works in smplayer, kaffeine, gwenview and others until I log out and log 
in again. Removing cairo-dock from autostart has solved the problem.
I will file a bug against cairo-dock.

[]'s
Marcelo