[MPlayer-users] OSD problems with DVDs

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 18 January 2006 at 23:17, Davide Capodaglio wrote:
> Hi everybody, these are the problems I have with DVDs and OSD:
> 
> - sometimes the total time is lower than real time, for all the film length
> - sometimes the total time is lower than real time, but at a certain point of 
> the film it becomes the correct time
> - sometimes the current time at a certain point goes back to 0: e.g. 
> 00:00-31:00, then resets to 00:00, then 00:00-28:32, reset to 00:00, etc. 
> (VOB boundary??).
> (For this I produced a patch, and now the current time follow the total time, 
> but if this is wrong I'm stuck again)
> - the strangest case: the total time is 00:00, but the current time goes on
> 
> All these DVDs with problems work perfectly under xine and even with a simple 
> lsdvd.
> Can anyone report these problems as well?

This is all normal, as MPlayer shows the REAL pts, as decoded from the
video stream. MPEG pts don't have to be monotonic AFAIK.

> Little OT: If someone is interested I wrote a patch to show CPU usage, frames 
> dropped etc (the last part of the status line) as OSD level 4.

Please post the patch.

Regards,
R.

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