[MPlayer-users] mplayer fine, gmplayer borks sometimes

roverr roverr at dogpound.is-a-geek.org
Mon Dec 2 17:37:03 CET 2002 

I've got a situation where mplayer works fine from
the command line, but gmplayer plays slow or shows a gray output window
and eventually gives me a warning that its playing too
slow and gives hints.  The hints don't help.

Strangly this only happens for some mpegs, other mpegs, avi's,
rm's are fine.

I've tried various -vo options and with -ao null.

I previously had mplayer-0.90-4 installed and it did not
exhibit this problem.
I suspect that some conf file didn't get upgraded correctly
but it's not clear what that is.
I'd appreciate any ideas you might have.
TIA


Configuration:
PIII 1.13Ghz w 256MB ram
Debian Sarge (upgraded from Debian Woody)
kernel 2.4.19
xfree 4.2.1
Matrox G450 with 16MB sdram
Source mpeg is on a uw scsi disk.
mplayer-0.90pre10 built from source using debian/rules binary,
  upgraded over previous mplayer version built the same way.


Here's text output from mplayer -ao null -vo xmga:

roverr at junkyard:~$ mplayer -ao null -vo xmga pspp.MPG 
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale
MPlayer 0.90pre10-2.95.4 (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

Reading /home/roverr/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
'/home/roverr/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 44 audio & 110 video codecs
Font /home/roverr/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid
root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/roverr/.mplayer/input.conf : No such
file or directory
Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or
directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing pspp.MPG
Detected MPEG-PS file format!
VIDEO:  MPEG1  352x240  (aspect 2)  29.97 fps  1437.5 kbps (179.7
kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Couldn't find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Sorry, 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 240 (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: [xmga] 352x240 => 352x264 Planar YV12 
[mga] Using 3 buffers.
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2)
==========================================================================
AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
Start playing...
A:  46.9 V:  46.9 A-V: -0.028 ct: -0.046  1382/1382   8%  2%  1.3% 0 0
0%

Exiting... (End of file)
roverr at junkyard:~$ 







Here's output from gmplayer -ao null -vo xmga:

roverr at junkyard:~$ gmplayer -ao null -vo xmga pspp.MPG 
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90pre10-2.95.4 (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

[cfg] read config file: /home/roverr/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
display)
Reading /home/roverr/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
'/home/roverr/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 44 audio & 110 video codecs
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/iso-8859-1/arial-24/font.desc loaded
successfully! (206 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid
root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/roverr/.mplayer/input.conf : No such
file or directory
Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or
directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
SKIN dir 1: '/home/roverr/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin'
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/iso-8859-1/arial-24/font.desc loaded
successfully! (206 chars)
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/iso-8859-1/arial-24/font.desc loaded
successfully! (206 chars)
Playing pspp.MPG
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    Detected MPEG-PS file format!
VIDEO:  MPEG1  352x240  (aspect 2)  29.97 fps  1437.5 kbps (179.7
kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Couldn't find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Sorry, 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 240 (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: [xmga] 352x240 => 352x264 Planar YV12 
[mga] Using 3 buffers.
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2)
==========================================================================
[pl_eq] Equalizer in use.
[pl_extrastereo] Extra stereo plugin in use (multiplier=1.00).
AO: [plugin] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
Start playing...
A:  10.2 V:   2.6 A-V:  7.543 ct:  0.170   52/ 52   1%  0% 690.0% 50 0
0%%

         ************************************************
         **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
         ************************************************
!!! Possible reasons, problems, workarounds: 
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver. Workaround: Try -ao sdl or
use
  ALSA 0.5 or OSS emulation of ALSA 0.9. Read DOCS/sound.html for more
tips!
  You can also experiment with -autosync 30 or other values.
- Slow video output. Try a different -vo driver (for list: -vo help) or
try
  with -framedrop!  Read DOCS/video.html for video tuning/speedup tips.
- Slow CPU. Don't try to play a big DVD/divx on a slow CPU! Try
-hardframedrop.
- Broken file. Try various combinations of these: -nobps  -ni  -mc 0 
-forceidx
- For playback from slow media (nfs/smb mounts, dvd, vcd etc) try -cache
8192
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file? Try with
-nocache.
If none of these apply, read DOCS/bugreports.html!

A:  46.9 V:  46.9 A-V: -0.002 ct:  4.604  1382/1382   2%  0% 121.6% 255
0 0%

Exiting... (Exit)
roverr at junkyard:~$ 



dmesg output for mga_vid:

Matrox MGA G200/G400/G450/G550 YUV Video interface v2.01 (c) Aaron
Holtzman & A'rpi
mga_vid: Found MGA G400/G450
mga_vid: MMIO at 0xd086e000 IRQ: 5  framebuffer: 0xD4000000
mga_vid: OPTION word: 0x400A1160  mem: 0x04  SDRAM
mga_vid: detected RAMSIZE is 16 MB
syncfb (mga): IRQ disabled in mga_vid.c



gui.conf:

roverr at junkyard:~/.mplayer$ cat gui.conf
enable_audio_equ = 1
vo_driver = "xmga"
vo_panscan = 0.000000
vo_doublebuffering = 1
vo_direct_render = 1
v_framedrop = 1
v_flip = 0
v_ni = 0
v_idx = 1
vf_pp = 0
vf_autoq = 0
vf_lavc = 0
ao_driver = "null"
ao_nosound = 0
ao_volnorm = 0
ao_surround = 0
ao_extra_stereo = 1
ao_extra_stereo_coefficient = 1.000000
ao_oss_mixer = "/dev/mixer"
ao_oss_device = "/dev/dsp"
osd_level = 0
sub_auto_load = 0
sub_unicode = 0
sub_pos = 100
font_factor = 0.750000
font_name = "/usr/share/mplayer/font/iso-8859-1/arial-24/font.desc"
cache = 4
load_fullscreen = 0
gui_skin = "default"
equ_band_00 = 0.000000
equ_band_01 = 0.000000
equ_band_02 = 0.000000
... and a whole bunch more equalizer settings.

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