[plug] Mplayer runs wild

[Russ Pitman]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 02:14:49PM +0800, John Knight wrote:
> Stuff below. :)
> 
> Make lunch, not war.
> 
> >> 2. What drivers are you using for yor sound and video devices?
> >
> >Sound - cmpci CMedia PCI cmi8338/8378
I possibly missled here.The sound is onboard. The above is what I got from 
lspci. I have available either a sbpci 128 card or sb live if either of 
those makes a difference.
> >Video	nv4	Riva [TNT] Rev 04
> >nb. Ihave d/loaded the linux driver from nvidia.com, not yet installed
> >
> >The video card is pretty basic, ASUS AGP-V3800 with 16mb and I really don't
> >expect much from it. I can't get fullscreen at the console. I am 
> >considering
> >upgrading, looking at a 3G 128M Geforce MX440. Do you know it?
> 
> The TNT should do ya as far as this goes, although DVD playback may be a 
> bit sluggish, framebuffer playback is shocking, chuck the nvidia drivers 
> on, it's worth it. As far as the models go with upgrading, you should be 
> fairly right, just check that it's got a heatsink AND a fan, and make sure 
> it's got DDR RAM. Otherwise things are fairly samey in the budget range of 
> cards, and things won't really be noticeable between 64 and 128 meg of 
> video ram.
Ok. Will the extra ram enable full screen at the console?
> 
> >> 3. Are you using OSS or ALSA, and if so, what release version?
> >
> >Assume OSS *Not* ALSA Sound worked so never bothered to chase alsa.
> 
> ALSA installation is fairly easy, provided you use the scripts that came 
> with it. OSS drivers are pretty buggy at times and for lesser known 
> chipsets, can be fairly rudimentary, even ALSA's OSS emulation is 
> recommended over standard OSS drivers when it comes to MPlayer.

I'll have at shot at that RSN. 

> 
> >> 4. Is your compiler the one that came with your distro, or have you
> >> upgraded of late?
> >Should have said this before, sorry
> >Debian testing uptodate as of wednesday.
> 
> This could cause a few problems and if you've tried to use this newer 
> compiler to compile drivers, then you're going to get unresolved symbols 
> for sure, if your kernel hasn't been re-compiled with it.
> 
The update/upgrade hasn't touched the default so far gcc --version gives 
2.95.4 so mplayer and the kernel were built with it

> >> 5. Have you tried re-installing the sound drivers? It sounds like 
> >they're
> >> not properly installed, maybe you have to run the "make devices" script
> >> again.
> >
> >No. Sound is working fine at the console and in Xfce and in mplayer in
> >Xterms
> >The /dev/dsp has 666 permissions. I run pysol to play solitaire and it
> >doesnt see sound in its options,but that has not bothered me. Probably
> >whatever is causing that is also gmplayer's problem
> 
> Aha! What sound interface is gmplayer trying to use? Try "gmplayer -ao 
> help" and see what the alternatives are. Something like SDL or esound might 
> make a stop-gap soultion.

I'm beginning to think that the problem is somewhere in gtk.
Sound works in an xterm and at the console for mplayer. Fails using gmplayer 
called as a menu item or in an xterm. Gtk refuses to start gmplayer set uid 
for either root or user.

attached are the outputs from calling mplayer and gmplayer also from 
gmplayer -ao help

Is that any help ?
-- 
Cheers

Russ.

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Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90rc5-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP 
Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
directory
Reading config file /home/rjp/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/rjp/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/rjp/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local 
display)
Available audio output drivers:
        mpegpes Mpeg-PES audio output
        oss     OSS/ioctl audio output
        null    Null audio output
        pcm     RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output
        plugin  Plugin audio output


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Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop 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 v2.0
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (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: [x11] 352x288 => 384x288 Planar YV12 
Using MMX2 for colorspace transform
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 16-bit special converter
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int 
AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
Starting playback...
A:   8.1 V:   8.1 A-V: -0.009 ct:  0.053  203/203   3%  4%  0.6% 0 0 0%
Exiting... (Quit)

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VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop 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 v2.0
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (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: [x11] 352x288 => 384x288 Planar YV12 
Using MMX2 for colorspace transform
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 16-bit special converter
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int 
AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
Starting playback...
root at belle:/home/rjp/video# 
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