[MPlayer-users] mplayer 0.90 pre 9

[Axel Schwarz]

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sned twice, because I dont know if you filtered out this message because gcc 2.ninexx
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Greetings,

first of all I have to say, that Mplayer & Mencoder is a great software.
I use mencoder to grab videos from my tv card with libavcodec on an AMD 450 Mhz and it works good.

My system is a Redhat 7.3 with gcc "2.nine6". I know that you don't want any bugreports when someone uses this
compiler version. But I used a few versions before 0.90 pre9, and it always was an improvement.
but now, I get a lot of strange error messages.

I start mencoder with:
mencoder -o /bb2.avi -endpos 01:00:00 -tv on:driver=v4l:width=384:height=
288:device=/dev/video0:norm=pal:chanlist=europe-west:outfmt=yv12:forcechan=1:audiorate=22050
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1:vbitrate=705 -oac pcm

using this settings, I got a framerate of 24 - 25 fps. Using mencoder 0.90 pre9, it allways runs for 
about 88 seconds, and then I'll get errors:

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Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 44100->44100 (352,8 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm:pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
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Opening video filter: [expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1  (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 384 x 288 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
videocodec: libavcodec (384x288 fourcc=58564944 [DIVX])
Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm:raw (RAW YV12)
==========================================================================
CBR PCM audio selected
Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/1ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/16bit... <- New !!! not in pre 8
Writing AVI header...
Forcing audio preload to 0, max pts correction to 0
Pos:  88,0s   2197f ( 0%)  24fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0,000 [703:352]
too bad - dropping audio frame !
Pos:  88,7s   2215f ( 0%)  24fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0,000 [703:352]
too bad - dropping audio frame !
Pos:  88,9s   2219f ( 0%)  24fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0,000 [703:352]

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As I told before, I used a lot of mplayer releases before and never got this error.
I've tested a few kernel version 2.4.18-3 and -5 and -10 and -17x from redhat 7.3,
and it is always the same. I 've tried a few cvs snapshots behind pre 9 ( latest was november 02. )
and the same errors occured.

Maybe that helps,

Yours, Axel

PS: I forgot: both, video and audio capture is bad !