[MPlayer-users] stops always at 77th minute PARTIALLY SOLVED BUT ...

[Alain Barthélemy]

This morning I checked the DVD. As my mpeg4 encoded movies stops at the 77th
minute on my standalone reader, I do:

# mplayer -dvd-device /dev/sr0 dvd://1 -ss 4620 (4620sec = 77 minutes)

and I have nothing although the movies lasts 105 minutes.

In fact if I want to start at about the 77th I have to type:

# mplayer -dvd-device /dev/sr0 dvd://1 -ss 2780 (2780s not equal to 77 min!)

There is apparently a problem of timing while reading the DVD but the encoded
mpeg4 movies reads OK with MPlayer (not on the standalone reader!).

Unfortunately I only have one chapter thus I can't start at a chapter and I
have to lose a lot of time to see to which value corresponds 77 minutes when
reading the DVD with MPlayer.

Tcprobe -T1 -i /dev/sr0 says "too many video packets in the buffer" but does it
have a meaning.

It can be badly encoded DVD movie or problem with MPlayer/MEncoder? If anybody
knows a way to reestablish the rigt timing?

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> 
> Till now I had no problem with reading mpeg4 movies captured from movies DVD
> with a standalone reader.
> 
> Since latest CVS (28th august and 10th september) I have a little problem. The
> movies always stops at about the 77th minute. While reading with MPlayer on my
> PC monitor I have no problem. Only on standalone reader. Funny!
> 
> Thus there is something in the encoded file that makes the mpeg4 file stops at
> the 77th minute (it happened with 4 movies always at about the 77th minute). I
> repeat the files are read normally when reading them on the PC console with MPLayer.
> 
> If anybody have the slightest idea of what can happen at the 77th minute?
> 
> 
> The instruction:
> 
> mencoder -dvd-device /dev/sr0 dvd://1 -oac lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1700:mbd=2:trell:cbp:gray -vf
> hqdn3d=0:254:0,crop=*:*:*:*,scale=575:* -sws 1-oac mp3lame -lameopts
> cbr:br=128:mode=3:vol=1.8 -o movie.avi
> 
> I had never had this problem with v 1.0pre4 CVS versions.
> 

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Alain Barthélemy
cassandre at bartydeux.be
http://bartydeux.be
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