[MPlayer-users] multiple xv instances fail on Suse10.3 but work on Ubuntu 8.04.1

[Bart van Deenen]

Hi

> On Tuesday, 08 July 2008 at 11:31, Bart van Deenen wrote:
> I've compiled MPlayer-1.0rc2 on these two systems, and it works fine when
> running one instance on both the Suse and Ubuntu box.
> However when I try running multiple instances, the Suse box starts
> complaining about "Could not grab port 65".

On Tuesday 08 July 2008 11:48:42 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> This is normal. Xvideo "ports" support only one client at a time AFAIK.
But it doesn't occur on my Ubuntu box! There I can run 5 clients at the same 
time (with performance problems), but all of them show exactly the same 
output, all running xv!

>
> > Anything I can do to make it work on the Suse
> > box, or should I just upgrade it?
>
> Tell the next MPlayer instance to use a different Xvideo port (if your card
> has more than one) or a different VO. Besides, the output below shows that
> MPlayer falls back to -vo x11 gracefully.
That's true, but x11 is not so nice as xv, the third instance doesn't want to 
rescale any more!.

So maybe you have some ideas of the difference? Thanks for thinking along.

Bart

P.S. log of 5 instances on ubuntu (same except the name of the movie).
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 8)
> 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
>
> Playing P001.wmv.
> ASF file format detected.
> [asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
> [asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
> VIDEO:  [WMV3]  720x576  24bpp  1000.000 fps  4000.0 kbps (488.3 kbyte/s)
> Clip info:
>  name:
>  author:
>  copyright:
>  comments:
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
> DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
> DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
> GetOutput r=0x0   size:1244160  align:1
> StreamCount r=0x0  1  1
> Decoder supports the following formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU RGB8 RGB555
> RGB565 RGB24 RGB32 Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
> VO: [xv] 720x576 => 720x576 Planar YV12
> Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfm: dmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)
> ==========================================================================
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
> ==========================================================================
> AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> Starting playback...
>
> Exiting... (Quit)