[MPlayer-users] Newbie problems with mplayer on FreeBSD-7.2

[Manish Jain]

Hi,

I had so far been using Windows for playing multimedia applications, 
because I could never get multimedia applications on FreeBSD to play 
with any degree of success despite a lot of effort. A couple of experts 
at FreeBSD suggested that I try MPlayer as it is easier to setup.

I installed mplayer (+skins +fonts) from the latest ports snapshot 
yesterday, along with libdvdcss, libdvdnav and libdvdread.

On starting MPayer, I couldn't find any button to start playback from my 
DVD device (/dev/dvd -> /dev/acd0).

So tried the commandline :

1) This is with an encrypted DVD
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/acd0

Playing dvd://1.
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/acd0
No stream found to handle url dvd://1

Exiting... (End of file)


2) This is with an encrypted DVD. Since step 1) did not appear to 
promising, I mounted the dvd at /mnt and tried playing a VOB file from 
there.

mount -t udf /dev/acd1 /mnt
mplayer /mnt/VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_6.VOB
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor (Family: 16, Model: 2, 
Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/GohaTibebZemen.ttf doesn't look like a 
bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/GohaTibebZemen.ttf

Playing /mnt/VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_6.VOB.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (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 appending the scale filter to your filter list,
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: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca
Stream with high frequencies VQ coding
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 768.0 kbit/50.00% (ratio: 96000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [dts] afm: libdca (DTS-libdca)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A:1603.4 V:   0.0 A-V:1603.432 ct:  0.000   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0

Exiting... (End of file)

3) MPlayer works fine if decrypt the movie first, create and iso image 
and mount it somewhere. MPlayer then can play the VOB's without problems.

4) When I play any mp2/mp3 files in the UI and customize my equalizer 
settings, the settings are lost if I start mplayer from the commandline 
next time.

Can anyone please help me out any of the above isues ? Any other general 
tips for using mplayer UI/CLI would also be greatly appreciated.


Thank you &
Regards
Manish Jain
invalid.pointer at gmail.com