[mythtv-users] Geforce 2 Ultra & MPLAYER (Slightly OT)

[Andrew Cockburn]

This turned out to be my audio config not my graphics card :

In case anyone is interested, I am using alsa, and adding "-ao alsa9" to 
the mplayer command line fixed it.

Regards,

Andrew Cockbrun

Andrew Cockburn wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am early on in the process here and have a question about mplayer. I 
> have setup my backend (no tuner card yet though) and am using a 
> desktop machine as a prototype frontend prior to running out and 
> getting an XBox . I have plenty of horsepower (Athlon 2800) but an old 
> GeForce 2 Ultra graphics card.
>
> My problem is that I can't get Mplayer to play videos. When I start it 
> up (from mythfontend, or even form the command line), the screen comes 
> up but shows a blank or frozen frame. If  I use the arrow keys to skip 
> sections, I will usually get a frame from the beginning of the next 
> section frozen, occasionally it will run on for a few frames and then 
> stop again.
>
> Xine works impecably so I have enough CPU for the job and mplayer 
> works reasonably ok on my backend which has newer generic GeForce 2 MX 
> on it (and this is only a 750Mhz machine).  The only important 
> difference seems to be the graphics card (both boxes are running red 
> hat 9)
>
> So my questions are :
>
> 1. Has anybody seen anything similar with mplayer ? Is there a fix ?
> 2. As an alternative can I use Xine to view videos and DVDs (I suspect 
> it is possible) - if so, does anyone have a detailed howto as I can't 
> see anything in the docs.
>
> Thanks !
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew Cockburn
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