[MPlayer-users] mplayer kills with a broken frame error

[Mac Smith]

On 22-Apr-2012, at 4:49 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 01:34:09PM +0530, Mac Smith wrote:
>> 
>> On 21-Apr-2012, at 12:18 PM, Mac Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21-Apr-2012, at 11:18 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Mac Smith <macsmith.us <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> I am using mplayer to play movie files from a http server (apache). 
>>>>> If due to some error the connection drops and comes back soon, 
>>>>> mplayer does not tries to reconnect and gets killed with a Broken 
>>>>> frame error.
>>>> 
>>>> Please post complete, uncut console output to show that you are 
>>>> using current svn (older versions are not supported).
>>>> 
>>>> Carl Eugen
>>> 
>>> $ /usr/local/bin/mplayer -ao alsa -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau http://172.16.0.7/movies/NO_STRINGS_ATTACHED_VAMWP.MPG
>>> MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
>>> mplayer: could not connect to socket
>>> mplayer: No such file or directory
>>> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
>>> Loading extension-related profile 'extension.MPG'
>>> 
>>> Playing http://172.16.0.7/movies/NO_STRINGS_ATTACHED_VAMWP.MPG.
>>> Connecting to server 172.16.0.7[172.16.0.7]: 80...
>>> Cache size set to 20000 KBytes
>>> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   
>>> TS file format detected.
>>> VIDEO MPEG2(pid=33) AUDIO MPA(pid=36) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 2
>>> VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  4000.0 kbps (500.0 kbyte/s)
>>> ==========================================================================
>>> Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
>>> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
>>> Selected video codec: [ffmpeg12vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1/2 (VDPAU))
>>> ==========================================================================
>>> ==========================================================================
>>> Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
>>> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
>>> Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
>>> ==========================================================================
>>> AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
>>> Starting playback...
>>> [VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
>>> [vdpau] Failed creating VDPAU decoder: invalid/unsupported VdpDecoderProfile value
>>> VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 1280x720 MPEG2 VDPAU acceleration  [zoom]
>>> A:  50.6 V:  50.6 A-V:  0.001 ct: -0.476 1244/1244  2%  2%  1.4% 3 0 0% 
>>> Broken frame at 0x128DC0                                                  
>>> A:  51.1 V:  51.3 A-V: -0.243 ct: -0.544 1263/1263  2%  2%  1.4% 3 0 0% 
>>> 
>>> Exiting... (End of file)
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> also tried
>> 
>> MPlayer SVN-r34870-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
>> 
>> but its the same
> 
> Am am really certain it is _not_ the same.
> That version will try reconnection once (which will fix it if the
> connection broke due to pausing for a long time), though if that fails
> it will give up. Retrying and thus hanging possibly forever is rarely
> a good idea.
> If it still fails that should mean your sever was down long enough to
> cause a network timeout and then refuses a reconnect still after that.
> Well, it could be the code does not handle a orderly server shutdown
> well since the network timeout does not come into play then.
> But you should be able to see from MPlayer's output when it tries to
> reconnect.


server was not down for a long, to simulate this i just did a "service httpd reload" and i dont see a any message of retying to connect. the cache percentage value in the following message keep dropping from 49% and when it reaches 0% mplayer kills with a broken frame error.

>>> A:  51.1 V:  51.3 A-V: -0.243 ct: -0.544 1263/1263  2%  2%  1.4% 3 0 0%