[MPlayer-users] mplayer-svn won't play mpeg files

[Michael Gwin]

Hello

With recent versions of mplayer-svn, I can no longer play mpeg files
with system streams.

For example (the file can be found at
http://home.in.tum.de/~paula/mpeg/lion.mpg ):

- r22100 doesn't work :

[mike at chomsky:~]$ mplayer lion.mpg 
MPlayer dev-SVN-r22100-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13,
Stepping: 8) MMX2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE SSE2
107 audio & 227 video codecs

Playing lion.mpg.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header.
Video: Cannot read properties.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 8000->128000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   3.5 (03.5) of 111.2 (01:51.1)  0.9%

- whereas r20617 does :

[mike at chomsky:~]$ mplayer lion.mpg 
MPlayer dev-SVN-r20617-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13,
Stepping: 8) CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Playing lion.mpg.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG1  384x288  (aspect 1)  23.976 fps  579.2 kbps (72.4
kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo
config request - 384 x 288 (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))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 32000 Hz,
2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 8000->128000) Selected audio
codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 384 x 288 (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] 384x288 => 384x288 Planar YV12 
A:   2.2 V:   2.3 A-V: -0.014 ct:  0.011  37/ 37  3%  2%  1.1% 0 0

any clues?

thanks, Mike