[MPlayer-users] playback problem

[Phil Oleynik]

sabine funk wrote:

>hello,
>i have a problem i never had before when installing mplayer, i hope someone 
>can help.
>several times i compiled and installed mplayer but now whenever i start 
>playback there is no image, just a few colored stripes on top of the screen. 
>audio works fine. i found out that video looks a little more normal when i 
>set the screen resolution to 800 x 600, but that isn't much help, of course.
>this is what mplayer tells me, i might be wrong but it doesn't look that
>different from when it used to work..
>i appreciate every bit of information because i keep getting the same results.
>thanks,
>sabine
>
>sf at linux:~> mplayer /daten/filme/mikenewcar.avi
>MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 
>6)
>Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
>CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
>Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
>
>Setting up LIRC support...
>mplayer: could not connect to socket
>mplayer: Keine Berechtigung
>Failed to open LIRC support.
>You will not be able to use your remote control.
>Playing /daten/filme/mikenewcar.avi.
>AVI file format detected.
>VIDEO:  [DIVX]  702x572  24bpp  23,976 fps  798,8 kbps (97,5 kbyte/s)
>Clip info:
> Software: MEncoder 1.0pre5-3.2
>==========================================================================
>Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
>Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
>AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe)  48000 Hz  384,0 kbit/s
>Using MMX optimized resampler
>AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 48000->192000 (384,0 kbit)
>Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
>==========================================================================
>==========================================================================
>Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
>Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
>==========================================================================
>Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
>AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, little endian signed int
>AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
>AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
>Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
>Starting playback...
>VDec: vo config request - 702 x 572 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
>Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
>Opening video filter: [scale]
>VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
>Movie-Aspect is 1,31:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
>SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 16-bit special converter
>VO: [fbdev] 702x572 => 748x572 BGR 16-bit
>A:   2,0 V:   2,0 A-V: -0,005 ct:  0,000  49/ 49 16% 12%  1,6% 0 0
>Exiting... (Quit)
>sf at linux:~>
>  
>
Maybe you should try other video-output drivers, unless you
have very rare videocard. Try to look what "xvinfo" command
will print. Rather possibly, you will have large output, that
is your xv capabilities list. If so, try "-vo xv" switch for mplayer.
Also, you may try "-vo x11" or other from list printed via
"mplayer -vo help" command.
Curretly you use framebuffer device, it does not work for me at all,
however, it works on some machines I have seen.
If nothing good happens, you also may try to use SDL, it is not
installed by default in some distros, you probably will need
to install it and recompile mplayer so that "-vo sdl" will be valid.

Philipp