[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer fails to play avi-file

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Tue Oct 15 09:08:04 CEST 2002


Hi,

1. wrong maillist for such user questions
2. NI avi will NEVER work from slow-seekable media like network or cdrom

> Hello,
> 
> After trying various ways to play a non-interlaced .avi file I'm
> turning to this mailinglist. All efforts using mplayer fails :(. Xine
> succeeds but only barely, vidix performs best.
> 
> I have tried with mplayer-0.90pre8-{0.0,0.1,0.2} and CVS from today
> and yesterday, compiled with gcc-2.95.4 and gcc-3.2.1. The tries have
> been on three different boxes, one PII 400MHz box w. SCSI cdrom AND
> Mach64 graphics, an PIII 1GHz, box w DVD-ROM (24xCDROM) and Radeon
> Mobility M6 and an PII 2x450MHz box w DVD-ROM (24xCDROM) and MGA
> G400. For the IDE CDROM's DMA is enabled. Best results so far have been
> on the slowest box w the SCSI CDROM.
> 
> After a while the audio/video playback gets out of sync, especially
> when stepping into the file with <Page Up> and the slow warning is
> displayed. The seek on the CDROM seems to move back and forth, and
> once the oscillation starts it remains.
> 
> Video drivers tested are: Xv, X11, xvidix (still a pink screen on the
> Radeon Mobility)
> Audio drivers: oss, alsa9, (and nosound). I have tried various switches,
> such as
> -nocache, -framedrop, -hardframedrop, -nobps etc, all resulting in a
> non-viewable movie.
> 
> Note: No problems have been found playing other avi files, mpg files,
> VCD's or DVD's.
> 
> More detailed info below (CVS compile with mmx2 and gcc-3.2.1):
> 
> MPlayer CVS-021014-18:33-3.2.1 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
> 
> CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Tualatin (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
> 
> Detected AVI file format!
> Detected NON-INTERLEAVED AVI file-format!
> VIDEO:  [DIV3]  640x272  24bpp  23.98 fps  905.3 kbps (110.5 kbyte/s)
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
> Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
> AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe)  48000 Hz  448.0 kbit/s
> Using MMX optimized resampler
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 56000->192000 (448.0 kbit)
> Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
> ==========================================================================
> vo: X11 running at 1400x1050 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0" => local display)
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Selected video codec: [ffdivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3))
> ==========================================================================
> alsa-init: testing and bugreports are welcome.
> alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 2 channels, Signed 16-bit
> (Little-Endian)alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: hw:0,0
> alsa9: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/16384 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
> AO: [alsa9] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
> Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
> Start playing...
> VDec: vo config request - 640 x 272 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
> VO: [xv] 640x272 => 640x272 Planar YV12 
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