On Sunday 17 November 2002 16:43, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
Following my post last week, I've been doing some more with this. As Clayton suggested, I recompiled Mplayer from scratch. If I start gmplayer, I can add mp3s or oggs to a playlist and play them OK. If I run: mplayer -ao alsa9 -vo xv -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd the film starts OK, with good sound. However, if I run the same list of options with gmplayer instead of mplayer, I get the message about the PC not being fast enough to play this. The relevant console messages are attached.
I sometimes get stupid errors like that, where mplayer and gmplayer act differently. I end up doing: rm -f ~/.mplayer/*conf* -- Looking at your attached files, this is what I noticed. [ mplayer does this] Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough [ while gmplayer does this instead] Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Trying to force video codec driver family -1 ... Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough One thing, though. My mplayer/gmplayer do the _same_ exact thing, but I am able to play DVDs using both SDL and alsa as the audio output driver flawlessly. [FYI, on both our machines the xv video out driver fails.] In other words, this is a killer. What version of SuSE/kernel are you using? [I'm using SuSE 8.1/2.4.19] What version of SDL are you compiling against? [SDL 1.2.5 came out October 06, which is what I'm using.] Also, MPlayer 0.90pre10 came out recently; I see you're using pre9 [I never tried DVDs using pre9].
I then tried Karol's rpm, but this refuses to launch, with a message that it can't open .VMG info. Again, the console messages are attached.
Are you sure those are my RPMs?? The output says that GUI support was not enabled, and I don't ever remember my compiles doing that. At any rate... I would like my RPMs to be working. Has anyone else had this same problem? Have you tried pre10 [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ -r https://sourceforge.net/project/admin/?group_id=28610]? I doubt it fixes it, but... Actually, I was just reading through Usenet on this problem (VIDEO_TS.IFO cannot be read). One person's solution was to reboot. Another person's answer was to compile MPlayer without libdvdread support. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20011020... http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/30982
In the event, I have got Xine working, athough it does its usual thing of not playing direct from the GUI - you have to go to the dvdnav submenu and select one of those.
I'd still like to follow up why MPlayer isn't working as expected, though, so if anyone has some good lines of inquiry ....
Please post back. I'm interested in helping solving your problem as well as fixing my RPMs. -- Karol Pietrzak <noodlez84@earthlink.net> PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0