[MPlayer-users] Some question to run mplayer successfully

[Fabien Nisol]

Hello all!

It is my first question here, I'm sorry if I'm asking evidences...

I'm trying to configure freevo on a redhat system... Bundled mplayer
does not really work and I decided to install a rpm from mplayerhq.hu.

Now I'm trying to execute mplayer on cmd line using following command:

COMMAND:
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mplayer -vo x11 -fs -tv
on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:input=0:norm=NTSC:channel=26:chanlist=us-bcast:width=640:height=480:outfmt=yuy2 -nocache -xy 800 -monitoraspect 4:3

OUTPUT:
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Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90rc1-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP
Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with RUNTIME CPU Detection - warning, it's not optimal! To get
best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
MPlayer was compiled WITHOUT GUI support!
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
'/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 123 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz)
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or
directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds

Playing TV channel 69
Detected TV! ;-)
Selected driver: v4l
 name: Video 4 Linux input
 author: Alex Beregszaszi <alex at naxine.org>
 comment: under development
Selected device: BT878(ATI TV-Wonder VE)
 Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping frameram scales
 Device type: 235
 Supported sizes: 48x32 => 768x480
 Inputs: 2
  0: Television: tuner audio tv camera  (tuner:1, norm:ntsc)
  1: Composite1: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:ntsc)
Using input 'Television'
Selected channel:26 (freq: 543.250)
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0" => local
display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
Couldn't find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Packed YUY2 to BGR 32-bit using MMX2
VO: [x11] 640x480 => 800x600 BGR 32-bit  [fs]
Selected video codec: [rawyuy2] vfm:raw (RAW YUY2)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound!!!
Start playing...
V:   0.0    5   0%  0%  0.0% 0 0 0%
Exiting... (Quit)



Tv starts without problem, BUT:

- I'm residing in canada, and I cannot find any channel list for canada
(canada-cable, like in xawtv, is not defined in mplayer) ... so i'm
almost sure 543.250 is not the real frequency for channel 26 

For sure, it would not work into freevo... But actually, I cannot start
tv into freevo for the following reason:

When I validate a channel in tv channel list, tv seems to start, but it
stops immediately.

FREEVO LOG:
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mode=tv    channel=69 COMEDY  tuner=69
Got freevo_xwin and x11
Got freevo.wid
Got WID = 0x03600001
Volume = 0
MPlayer_Thread.run(): Started, cmd=--prio=-20 mplayer -vo x11 -fs -tv
on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:input=0:norm=NTSC:channel=69:chanlist=canada-cable:width=640:height=480:outfmt=yuy2 -nocache -wid 0x03600001 -xy 800 -monitoraspect 4:3
self.t1.isAlive()=1, self.t2.isAlive()=1
ChildApp.__init__(), pid=2095, app=--prio=-20 mplayer -vo x11 -fs -tv
on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:input=0:norm=NTSC:channel=69:chanlist=canada-cable:width=640:height=480:outfmt=yuy2 -nocache -wid 0x03600001 -xy 800 -monitoraspect 4:3, poll=256
stdout: No data, stopping (pid 2096)!
stderr: No data, stopping (pid 2097)!
childapp: Before wait(2095)
Killing mplayer
posting play_end
Volume = 60
Volume = 40
1040753318.31: started tv app
1040753318.32: tv app got PLAY_END event
Volume = 0
Volume = 0
stopped tv app
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If I start mplayer using exactly the same cmd line (without -wid
option), mplayer starts without problem ...4



Any Idea ?

Thanks

Fabien Nisol