[mythtv-users] "Videos" Play too fast and choppy

[Nowhere]

OK I installed and tried Xine as the video player in Setup/Videos/Player
Settings and it plays at the correct speed. So it is a problem with
mplayer.  Here is my commandline for mplayer...

mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv -ao alsa9 %s

Anyone have any ideas why mplayer is playing video and audio too fast?  

If I can't fix the mplayer then I need to figure out how to get xine to
launch directly to fullscreen and not in a window first then switch to
fullscreen. My commandline for xine is:

xine --f -g -D -A alsa --no-logo --no-splash %s  (do I need alsa9?)

but this pops xine up in a window and then switches to fullscreen
leaving the mouse cursor in the center of the video, which does fade
after a minute but annoys my perfectionist side. The flash of the KDE
desktop just isn't polished enough for me ;) Any fix for this? I know
there are a buncha xine users out there.

Any comments/help would be appreciated!
Thanks again!
Eric



-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Nowhere
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:16 PM
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] "Videos" Play too fast and choppy

Thanks for the info Henk. 

I'm not sure I want to run Myth as root all the time though. I still
need to check to see if this will make a difference. I have no keyboard
on the system and getting myth to launch as root from a remote PC is
proving troublesome... I have a small script to kill/launch the frontend
from my remote:

#!/bin/sh

killall mythfrontend
DISPLAY=:0.0 nohup mythfrontend &

How can I make it run the front end as root?

Does anyone else have troubles playing avis and such in mythvideo (ie
too fast?) I would rather find the root cause and fix it than patch it
with the timebase unless everyone is running that way.

Any other clues?

Thanks again for the support!

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Henk Poley
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:03 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] "Videos" Play too fast and choppy

Op zaterdag 17 april 2004 06:04, schreef Nowhere:
> Thanks for the help. Unfortunately it didn't help. At least part of it
> didn't help. I turned on the "Use Video As Timebase" option and when I
> play a video using the Video selection I lose the video (black
screen).
> If I turn it off the video comes back.  I can however hear the audio
and
> it is still too fast (chipmunk effect).
>
> <snip>
>
> My system is as follows:
> ...
> MSI K7N2GL MB with nforce2 and GF MX440 onboard video and s-video out

Okay, you have an nVidia chipset (prerequisite for  "Use Video As
Timebase"). 
But do you also run the drivers from nVidia (prereq. 2)? And do you ruin
the 
frontend as root (prereq. 3)?

	Henk Poley <><
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