[MPlayer-dev-eng] Not honoring the novideo flag?

[Nico Sabbi]

Dermot McGahon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Attempting to play an MPEG-2 transport stream which contains only one
> elementary stream (MPGA format). There is a 10 second hang while the
> TS demuxer probes for a video ES. Adding --novideo to the command line
> makes no difference.
>
> Log attached.
>
>
> Dermot.
> --
>
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>
>[dermot at dermot-ws ~]$ mplayer --novideo mcast://239.192.160.4:5000
>Using GNU internationalization
>Original domain: messages
>Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
>Current domain: mplayer
>Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
>
>MPlayer dev-CVS-040920-18:09-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>
>CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood 2994 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
>Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
>SSE2 supported but disabled
>CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
>Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
>
>Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
>Reading config file /home/dermot/.mplayer/config
>Reading /home/dermot/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/dermot/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
>Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
>Using built-in default codecs.conf.
>font: can't open file: /home/dermot/.mplayer/font/font.desc
>font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
>Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
>Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
>Using nanosleep() timing
>Can't open input config file /home/dermot/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
>Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
>Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
>
>Playing mcast://239.192.160.4:5000.
>Connected to server: 239.192.160.4
>Stream not seekable!
>Stream not seekable!
>TS file format detected.
>Stream not seekable!
>Stream not seekable!
>TS file format detected.
>DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1,
>Stream not seekable!
>PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
>NO VIDEO! AUDIO MPA(pid=2323) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 9612
>Opened TS demuxer, audio: 50(pid 2323), video: ffffffff(pid -1)...POS=22372
>Stream not seekable!
>==========================================================================
>Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
>MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done
>AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 24000->192000 (192.0 kbit)
>Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
>==========================================================================
>Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
>AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, little endian signed int
>AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
>AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
>Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
>Video: no video
>Starting playback...
>A:         1.2 23.9% 0%
>  
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  
>

use a smaller -tsprobe e.g. -tsprobe 4096.
-novideo is only used to prevent video.

    Nico