[mythtv-users] Mplayer problem (came out of the SampleVideo question)

PAUL WILLIAMSON pwilliamson at mandtbank.com
Sun Oct 31 11:05:16 UTC 2004


>>On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:16:15 -0400, PAUL WILLIAMSON
>><pwilliamson at mandtbank.com> wrote:
>> I've been using and admin of various unix and linux platforms
>> for quite some time (like 10 years or so?  wow) and been running
>> myth in a usable for for about 6-8 months.  I've been fooling
>> around with mplayer, and never gotten it to play video
>> from the command line right.  All recorded shows and stuff
>> from within myth is fine.  The best way to describe the
>> video of pre-recorded stuff (like VOBs and DVD ISOs) is that
>> it looks like a twizzler.  Imagine a tube of pillsbury grands
>> biscuits and the image is like that, but the twist is a
>> whole lot tighter.
>> 
>> I used to see this on old TVs where the horizontal hold (or
>> maybe vertical, dunno) is totally out of whack.
>> 
>> Is there any hope of straightening it out?
>> 
>> Paul
> 
>>> "nate s" <nate.strickland at gmail.com> 10/31/04 2:46 AM >>>
>post the output of mplayer when you run it from the command line
>
>-Nate


Thanks.  I really appreciate the help.

Here goes - it's a long one...

[root at mythtvmbe root]# mplayer /mnt/video/Movies/Grease/Grease.ISO
MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster 6459 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping:
9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf':
No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
directory
Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /mnt/video/Movies/Grease/Grease.ISO.
MPEG-PS file format detected.

Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8272601 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  4587.2 kbps (573.4
kbyte/s)
No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for
details)!
vo: X11 running at 1400x1050 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
display)
[nvidia_vid] Found chip: NV18 [GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x]
libdha: DHA kernelhelper failed: No such file or directory
[nvidia_vid] arch 10 register base f5f4d000
libdha: DHA kernelhelper failed: No such file or directory
[nvidia_vid] detected memory size 64 MB
[nvidia_vid] MTRR set up
[nvidia_vid] video mode: 1400x26 at 32
VIDIX: Description: NVIDIA RIVA OVERLAY DRIVER
VIDIX: Author: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer at freenet.de>
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Planar YV12 to Packed YUY2 using MMX2
VO: [xvidix] 720x480 => 720x540 Packed YUY2
Using colorkey: ff00
[nvidia_vid] set colorkey 0xff00
called vixConfigPlayback
[nvidia_vid] setting up a 720x540-340x255 video window (src 720x480),
format 0x32595559
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xvidix] 720x480 => 720x540 Packed YUY2
Using colorkey: ff00
[nvidia_vid] set colorkey 0xff00
called vixConfigPlayback
[nvidia_vid] setting up a 720x540-340x255 video window (src 720x480),
format 0x32595559
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xvidix] 720x480 => 720x540 Packed YUY2
Using colorkey: ff00
[nvidia_vid] set colorkey 0xff00
called vixConfigPlayback
[nvidia_vid] setting up a 720x540-340x255 video window (src 720x480),
format 0x32595559
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xvidix] 720x480 => 720x540 Packed YUY2
Using colorkey: ff00
[nvidia_vid] set colorkey 0xff00
called vixConfigPlayback
[nvidia_vid] setting up a 720x540-340x255 video window (src 720x480),
format 0x32595559
V:   0.6   22  277% 34%  0.0% 0 0 0%
demux_mpg: 24fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate.
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xvidix] 720x480 => 720x540 Packed YUY2
Using colorkey: ff00
[nvidia_vid] set colorkey 0xff00
called vixConfigPlayback
[nvidia_vid] setting up a 720x540-340x255 video window (src 720x480),
format 0x32595559
V:   2.5  501  28% 24%  0.0% 0 0 0%
demux_mpg: 30fps NTSC content detected, switching framerate.
Warning! FPS changed 23.976 -> 29.970  (-5.994000) [4]
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xvidix] 720x480 => 720x540 Packed YUY2
Using colorkey: ff00
[nvidia_vid] set colorkey 0xff00
called vixConfigPlayback
[nvidia_vid] setting up a 720x540-340x255 video window (src 720x480),
format 0x32595559
V:   0.7  518  28% 24%  0.0% 0 0 0%
demux_mpg: 24fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate.




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