[MPlayer-users] watching VCD on Plextor drives

[Thomas Maguin]

On Friday 02 June 2006 19:11, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Thomas Maguin wrote:
> > mplayer vcd://2 /dev/hdx on Plextor drives still results in an
> What about vcd://   ?
>
No difference.
Xine is also working fine.

> > unacceptable "movie". On the other hand kmplayer produces a correct movie
> > on the same disc in the same drive only using the "Open VCD" dialog.
> What do you mean by "unacceptable"?
>
from the mplayer doc: "At least Plextor and some Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drives 
have horrible performance reading VCDs. This is because the CDROMREADRAW 
ioctl is not fully implemented for these drives. If you have some knowledge 
of SCSI programming, please help us implement generic SCSI support for VCDs."
mplayer is playing, but there are fragments all over the movie.

> I thought kmplayer was just a front-end for mplayer. I any case, please
> post the text output of mplayer, and, if possible, kmplayer. Try running
> kmplayer from a terminal to get it's output (I've never used it, so
> that's just a guess).
>
kmplayer:
mplayer -wid 56623340 -slave  -vo xv -framedrop  -contrast 0 -brightness 
0 -hue 0 -saturation 0  -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom 'vcd://' -identify
mplayer -wid 56623340 -slave  -vo xv -framedrop  -contrast 0 -brightness 
0 -hue 0 -saturation 0  -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom 'vcd://01' -identify
mplayer -wid 56623340 -slave  -vo xv -framedrop  -contrast 0 -brightness 
0 -hue 0 -saturation 0  -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom 'vcd://02' -identify


Pasting these lines into console results in this:
Playing vcd://.
ID_VCD_START_TRACK=1
ID_VCD_END_TRACK=2
track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=6  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 0
track 02:  adr=1  ctrl=6  format=2  00:08:00  mode: 0
ID_VCD_TRACK_1_MSF=00:06:00
ID_VCD_TRACK_2_MSF=80:23:20
MPEG: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(
MPEG: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(

or this:
Playing vcd://02.
ID_VCD_START_TRACK=1
ID_VCD_END_TRACK=2
track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=6  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 0
track 02:  adr=1  ctrl=6  format=2  00:08:00  mode: 0
ID_VCD_TRACK_1_MSF=00:06:00
ID_VCD_TRACK_2_MSF=80:23:20
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  480x576  (aspect 2)  25.000 fps  2530.0 kbps (316.2 kbyte/s)
File not found: '/home/piewie/.mplayer/default.sub'
Failed to open /home/piewie/.mplayer/default.sub
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
ID_FILENAME=vcd://02
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=2530000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=480
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.3333
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=mp3
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=80
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=6574.98
Xv: could not grab port 154
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 480 x 576 (preferred colorspace: 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.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
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))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=mpeg12
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 480 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 480x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12
X11 error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)


MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: decode_video
ID_SIGNAL=6
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible 
bug.
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x36000ec
  Serial number of failed request:  42
  Current serial number in output stream:  45