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

Fedor Pikus fpikus at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 06:06:06 UTC 2009


On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Andrew Junev <a-j at a-j.ru> wrote:
>
> Monday, December 7, 2009, 12:03:37 AM, you wrote:
>
>> 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,
>
> Yep, the comma is there for me. And mplayer log is exactly the same,
> no matter if it's sarted from mythfrontend or from a terminal window.
> But if it's started from a terminal window, I can watch a movie, and
> if it's started from mythfrontend - I can only watch a slide show by
> pressing FastForward continuously...
>
> Is there any way to trace what the problem is? Running mythfrontend
> with '-v playback' doesn't provide any additional information in this
> case...
>

If you can log into the machine (or throw a terminal onto another PC)
you can try to run "ps -elf" and see what the actual command line
arguments to mplayer are when it's launched by the frontend.

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