[MPlayer-users] Most recent updates have caused a problem

[Murray Blakeman]

> Yes, the cache now reacts far faster, which I suspect exposes some issues
> that were previously hidden.
> Can you try updating to r31371 and if that alone does not help try a
> few different value for -cache-seek-min ?
>    
I'm now running the following (latest) version of mplayer and I'm still 
having issues with smooth playback.  The clip mentioned in a previous 
post still doesn't play if I use the "-cache" option.  OS is Solaris 10 
with CDE desktop.  The "-cache-seek-min" doesn't make any difference.  
An older build "SVN-r30976 (20100317)" works fine.

$ mplayer -v
MPlayer SVN-r31727-snapshot-4.5.0 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel  max cpuid level: 13
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9650  @ 3.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
23, Stepping: 10)
extended cpuid-level: 8
extended cache-info: 402686016
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
Cannot test OS support for SSE, leaving disabled.
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNowExt: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 SSSE3: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 SSSE3 CMOV
....


After only a few seconds of video, the cache counts down to 0% and I 
receive "Cache not filling!".  It doesn't recover and I need to CTRL-C.  
Output is shown below.  The file is on the local drive.  This happens to 
most MOV files.  MKV playback is also poor.

$ mplayer -cache 8192 Lebanon\ -\ Trailer.mov
MPlayer SVN-r31727-snapshot-4.5.0 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Cannot test OS support for SSE, leaving disabled.

Playing Lebanon - Trailer.mov.
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)

libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang eng
[lavf] stream 1: video (h264), -vid 0
VIDEO:  [H264]  1920x1080  24bpp  23.976 fps  9674.6 kbps (1181.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
  major_brand: qt
  minor_version: 537199360
  compatible_brands: qt
  title: "Lebanon" Trailer
  title-eng: "Lebanon" Trailer
  artist: Yahoo! Movies
  artist-eng: Yahoo! Movies
  copyright: © 2010, Sony Pictures Classics.
  copyright-eng: © 2010, Sony Pictures Classics.
vo_xvr100: Error: can't open framebuffer device '/dev/fbs/pfb0'
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 187.1 kbit/12.18% (ratio: 23384->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vdpau] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12
A:  11.6 V:  11.6 A-V: -0.000 ct:  0.021   0/  0 16%  7%  0.5% 6 0 0%
Cache not filling!