[MPlayer-users] Couple of newbie questions...

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Aug 14, 2005, at 23.18, Philip Prindeville wrote:

> Hi.
>
> New on the list (though I suspect now is not the best time to be
> joining it... oh, well)...  and I had a couple of questions.
>
> First, I'm seeing the dreaded "too many packets in video buffer"
> message when trying to play the Brian Wilson "Smile" DVD.  See
> below.  If I play it differently as:
>
> % mplayer dvd://3 -ac dvdpcm -aid 160 -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0
>
> (and via analogue line-out instead of via SPDIF/RCA) then it works.
> I suspect that the problem actually has nothing to do with the video
> stream at all, and is a decoder issue (however, both hwac3 and a52
> decoders have the same issue).
Have you tried another media player? Like Xine or VLC? Let's see if  
this is *just* and MPlayer problem, or something more broad. If it's  
just MPlayer, then we can help you, if it's not, try looking at  
another mailing list.
>
> Second question, how does one get DVD menu navigation to work?
> I can play individual titles, but not see the top-level menus to get
> around the various titles on most DVD's.
It doesn't exist, nor is it likely to exist anything in the near  
future. Use Xine if menus are important.
>
> Third, under Windows, the same hardware (a MSI-7142/K8MM-V
> motherboard, AMD Athalon 64, 1GB, Sony DVD-RW DRU-800A,
> NVidia GeForce 6200 video card, etc) seems to be a lot better at
> reading the same DVD's than Mplayer-1.0pre7 is on FC3.  I suspect
> that Mplayer isn't setting the DVD's error-correction strategy to be
> as aggressive... but I couldn't find what the settings were using
> "hdparm", so I'm not even sure that Linux let's you tweak this.
What player are you using? Have you tried MPlayer for Windows?
>
> Lastly, how does one encode a DVD in "fat" format (with all camera
> angles, all subtitle info, all audio tracks in multiple  
> languages... etc. all
> layered in parallel)?  That is, I might want to rip a DVD onto a hard
> disk now, but might not know until later if it will be watched in  
> PCM/stereo
> or DTS 6.1 until later, and whether it will be watched with english  
> captions
> or spanish subtitles, etc.
This isn't a job for MEncoder. MEncoder would compress the data. You  
just want a simple ripper and DeCSS app, which MEncoder doesn't do  
(at least, not with all of those features).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Philip
>
> Here's the debugging from playing Brian Wilson's "Smile" with hwac3
> (via the builtin Southbridge Via 8237R and Via 1617A codec)...  And
> yes, I tried -ni and it made no difference.
>
>
> [root at media ~]# mplayer dvd://3 -aid 128 -ac hwac3 -ao  
> alsa:device=spdif
> MPlayer 1.0pre7-RPM-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 Clawhammer (Family: 8,  
> Stepping: 10)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
>
>
>
> 85 audio & 196 video codecs
> Playing dvd://3.
> Reading disc structure, please wait...
> There are 14 titles on this DVD.
> There are 18 chapters in this DVD title.
> There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
> DVD successfully opened.
> No matching DVD subtitle language found!
> Cache fill: 15.14% (1269760 bytes)    MPEG-PS file format detected.
>
> Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8251235 bytes).
> Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec  
> failed?
> For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
> MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
> VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  7000.0 kbps (875.0  
> kbyte/s)
> vo: X11 running at 1920x1200 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" =>  
> local display)
> ====================================================================== 
> ====
> 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 -vf 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- 
> v0.4.0b
> 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: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12  [fs]
> V:  22.0 653/653 11%  1%  0.0% 0 0 49%
> Exiting... (Quit)
> [root at media ~]#
>
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