[MPlayer-users] mplayer only as root

[Bob Gill]

Hi.  I have a bug (at least I think so, I've built the latest version, 
the latest CVS and looked through the faqs (both) and documentation.  
I've also experimented and the problem remains.  The bug:  I run mplayer 
as root, and it runs ok (dvd playback, many different files played back 
including avi's and mpg's).  I run mplayer as non-root and playback is 
slow and jerky.  I've looked at google and saw that /dev/rtc could be a 
problem, so I changed the permissions and users allowed.  Problem 
remains.  As mentioned before, the CVS sub-version does not help (as 
before, it runs perfectly as root, but very slowly as non-root).  When 
playing (encrypted) DVD's as non-root, it eventually gives an error 
message 'too many packets in buffer'. 
My system:  RedHat Linux 9.0 updated with yum, running Linux kernel 
2.6.0-test7
My audio: Soundblaster Live Value
My video: Nvidia Ti4200 with a patched Nvidia binary driver (to work 
with the new kernel).
Intel pentium4  @ 1800 MHz  overclocked by 5% to 1890 MHz.
1GB of PC2700 DDR memory.
I must also mention that -nosound does improve things somewhat, but 
video is still jerky.  There are no problems (audio or video) when 
running as root.

Startup sequence:


[bob at localhost MPlayer-1.0pre2]$ mplayer -nosound
MPlayer 1.0pre2-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
 
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood 1890 MHz (Family: 8, 
Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
 
Reading config file 
/data/mplayer/MPlayer-1.0-pre2/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
directory
Reading config file /home/bob/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/bob/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/bob/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local 
display)
xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=8388614.
Reading /home/bob/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 157 video codecs
font: can't open file: 
/usr/local/share/mplayer/font/iso-8859-1/arial-14/font.desc
Cannot load font: 
/usr/local/share/mplayer/font/iso-8859-1/arial-14/font.desc
Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such device (mplayer should be setuid root 
or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Input config file /home/bob/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds
SKIN dir 1: '/home/bob/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/data/mplayer/MPlayer-1.0-pre2/share/mplayer/Skin'
 
Playing dvd://1
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 18 titles on this DVD.
There are 27 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  9801.6 kbps (1225.2 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 32-bit special converter
xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=8388614.
V:   2.1   57  14% 17%  0.0% 0 0 18%
demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine fx. FPS 
changed to 23.976!
V:   4.5  116  13% 14%  0.0% 0 0 6%%
Exiting... (Quit)

I modified /dev/rtc to  crw-rw-rw-    1 bob      users     10, 135 Jan 
30  2003 /dev/rtc
(to allow all read access, and chowned it from root/root to bob/users, 
no success).  I have downloaded new codecs and deleted the old ones 
prior to installing the new ones to make sure there were no old ones 
lying around.  I also ran chown -R bob.users mplayer/* to make sure 
local users had access to all files at the top of the mplayer source tree.

Thanks in advance,
Bob