[MPlayer-users] [Solved] Strange MPlayer behavior when playing on TV

[Marcin Zajączkowski]

On 2008-02-16 18:36, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> On 2008-02-16 15:50, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> (...)
>>> MPlayer works strange with X-server (only) started on TV. It shows the 
>>> first frame (or some from the begin of movie) and stops. When 
>>> paused/resumed it plays a few frames and stops again. The same when 
>>> forwarded.
>>>
>>> I happens on Fedora 8. I have no problem with it on Fedora 5. I use the 
> (...)
>>> I don't know if it's a problem with mplayer, but maybe you know what 
>>> could be a reason (and maybe in addition how it could be fixed)?
>> It might have been fixed later in SVN. Please download the latest source
>> snapshot, build it and test if it still misbehaves. Assuming it works with
>> current SVN, if you could then identify the SVN commit that fixed the
>> issue, I could apply it to the RPM package. I would do it myself, but
>> because I have no TV, I can't test it.
> 
> Unfortunately latest source doesn't work properly on my TV either, but 
> it gave me an idea to dig in another direction. I logged debug messages 
> from both runs and discovered, that it is a problem with sound decoding, 
> especially with pulseaudio.
> 
> It has a "feature" that sound isn't played when main X-server is not 
> active (e.g. another is active - like in my case or tty console is 
> opened). When I start movie on my TV, switch to default X I hear sound 
> from the movie... With oss or alsa output movie is played with normal 
> speed, but without sound at all. I will try to determine is it possible 
> to tell pulseaudio to play in that situation, but there is already on 
> open ticket about that (1 month):
> http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/205

Good people from Fedora helped me. Because I wasn't able to find an 
answer anywhere else I post it here for better propagation.

It was required to start mplayer using ck-xinit-session, like:
DISPLAY=:1 /usr/bin/ck-xinit-session /usr/bin/xterm -e /usr/bin/mplayer

For more info see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433675


Regards
Marcin