[Nouveau] unable to play videos with nouveau

[Xavier]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM,  <schmirrwurst at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 20:23:55, vous avez écrit :
>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:19 PM,  <schmirrwurst at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > on geforce 8, each time I use the nouveau driver, I'm unable to play
>> > videos, the video area remains black....
>>
>> Which xorg version ?
>>
>
> I'm using 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
>
>
>> See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
>> nv50 + xv -> note 7
>> 7 - Now it works fine, but you need Xserver 1.7 or newer. In other
>> case you need to run a composite manager (Compiz won't work, something
>> like xcompmgr or KWin with XRender).
>>
> I've just tried kwin with xrender, but still no video
>

Sorry, I meant to reply on the mailing list so that others can help.
Did you also try xcompmgr ?

Can you attach your Xorg.0.log and kernel/dmesg logs ?
Which player are you using, is it reporting any errors when running
from a terminal ?