[mythtv-users] mplayer doesn't work when started by mythfrontend

[Fedor Pikus]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Andrew Junev <a-j at a-j.ru> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have a strange issue with "Watch Videos" on my frontend-only
>> machine. mplayer starts, but video is like "paused" and I can't switch
>> it to "play" mode. I can seek forward/backward, but instead of playing
>> the video back, I only get a still image.
>> I tried it with -vo xv and -vo vdpau, without any difference.
>>
>> If I quit mythfrontend and execute exactly the same player run string
>> from a terminal window:
>>
>> mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet <filename>
>>
>> the file is played back just fine!!!
>>
>>
>> I checked the log, and couldn't see any difference between running
>> mplayer from a command line and running mplayer from within
>> mythfrontend:
>>
>> MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
>>
>> Playing /video.archive/back.to.the.future.1.avi.
>> Cache fill: 19.97% (3350528 bytes)
>> AVI file format detected.
>> [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
>> [aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
>> VIDEO:  [XVID]  608x336  12bpp  23.976 fps  1600.3 kbps (195.3 kbyte/s)
>> Clip info:
>>  Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
>> ==========================================================================
>> Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
>> Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
>> Forced video codec: ffvc1vdpau
>> Forced video codec: ffwmv3vdpau
>> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
>> Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
>> ==========================================================================
>> ==========================================================================
>> Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
>> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
>> Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
>> ==========================================================================
>> AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
>> Starting playback...
>> Movie-Aspect is 1.81:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
>> VO: [vdpau] 608x336 => 608x336 Planar YV12  [fs] [zoom]
>>
>> Exiting... (Quit)
>>
>> (this is taken from the mythfrontend log). No errors, nothing that can
>> indicate an issue. But instead of a smooth playback I only get a still
>> image (that changes if I press FF / RR buttons on my remote).
>>
>> Is there anyone else here who had such an issue?
>>
>> Any ideas on how to make mplayer work from mythfrontend?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>> P.S. I have and NVidia 8600GT-based video adapter. My mplayer is
>> configured to use vdpau by default:
>> $ cat /home/mythtv/.mplayer/config
>> vo=vdpau,xv,
>> vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,
>> cache=16384
>> $
>
> I recently found a file that wouldn't play if the -vc switch was
> included, but would if it was left out. ie
>
> mplayer -vo vdpau file.mkv would work
>
> mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau file.mkv wouldn't
>
> Mind you it was a weird file that xbmc would play as random coloured stripes!

You should always put a comma at the end of "vc" line: -vc foo,bar,baz,
This allows mplayer to select whatever codec it would have selected
without -vc if it does not like any of the specified codecs. For
example, for vdpau I have:
-vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,

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