[MPlayer-users] Why does a -dumpstream dump not play when mplayer can play the DVD directly fine?

[Ron Johnson]

On 05/03/2012 04:53 PM, Alex Bennee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some problems ripping some of the DVDs in my collection.
> The DVD plays fine with a normal command line, e.g.:
>
[snip]

Can't reproduce with s/w from the Ubuntu "Precise" motumedia ppa 
(MPlayer SVN-r34707 and it's built-in libavcodec 54.0.0) and the dumped 
mpeg files from the Mamma Mia! and Van Helsing DVDs.

$ mplayer mamma_mia.mpeg
MPlayer SVN-r34707-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Playing mamma_mia.mpeg.
libavformat version 54.0.0 (internal)
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 54.0.0 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg12vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1/2 (VDPAU))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 720x480 => 854x480 MPEG2 VDPAU acceleration
A:   0.7 V:   0.7 A-V:  0.010 ct:  0.026  15/ 12 ??% ??% ??,?% 3 0

demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching 
framerate.
A:  11.5 V:  11.5 A-V:  0.000 ct:  0.045 275/272  2%  4%  1.5% 3 0
[ac3 @ 0xd1a6a0]frame sync error
A: 658.1 V: 658.1 A-V:  0.006 ct:  0.052 1385/1382  0%  2%  1.9% 0 0

Exiting... (Quit)

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