mplayer and vlc errors in F25 and rawhide (F26) after friday and saturday's updates

[stan]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 12:10:26 -0700
stan <Cuex_groppUd0 at q.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 11:10:33 -0700
> stan <Cuex_groppUd0 at q.com> wrote:
> 
> > The xorg server packages updated to the next version of 1.19, and I
> > had hopes this would solve the issue, but it didn't.  Looks like
> > I'll have to revert the 20 or 30 xorg packages to see if that
> > will.  
> 
> I downgraded all the relevant xorg packages to server 1.18.4.6, and
> everything started working again.
> 
> It seems that 1.19 should have been 2.0 instead, as it has broken the
> abi / api of X for applications.  It's equivalent to bumping the so
> number of a library.
> 
> Anyway, I'll mention this on the mplayer user list.

This is still occurring, and I've noticed that it also impacts python
programs using pygame.  On X 1.19, they show the slow behavior, while
the identical program on X 1.18 runs normally.