[mythtv-users] mplayer doesn't work when started by mythfrontend

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Andrew Junev <a-j at a-j.ru> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a strange issue with "Watch Videos" on my frontend-only
> machine. mplayer starts, but video is like "paused" and I can't switch
> it to "play" mode. I can seek forward/backward, but instead of playing
> the video back, I only get a still image.
> I tried it with -vo xv and -vo vdpau, without any difference.
>
> If I quit mythfrontend and execute exactly the same player run string
> from a terminal window:
>
> mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet <filename>
>
> the file is played back just fine!!!
>
>
> I checked the log, and couldn't see any difference between running
> mplayer from a command line and running mplayer from within
> mythfrontend:
>
> MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
>
> Playing /video.archive/back.to.the.future.1.avi.
> Cache fill: 19.97% (3350528 bytes)
> AVI file format detected.
> [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
> [aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
> VIDEO:  [XVID]  608x336  12bpp  23.976 fps  1600.3 kbps (195.3 kbyte/s)
> Clip info:
>  Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
> ==========================================================================
> Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
> Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
> Forced video codec: ffvc1vdpau
> Forced video codec: ffwmv3vdpau
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
> ==========================================================================
> ==========================================================================
> 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: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> Starting playback...
> Movie-Aspect is 1.81:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> VO: [vdpau] 608x336 => 608x336 Planar YV12  [fs] [zoom]
>
> Exiting... (Quit)
>
> (this is taken from the mythfrontend log). No errors, nothing that can
> indicate an issue. But instead of a smooth playback I only get a still
> image (that changes if I press FF / RR buttons on my remote).
>
> Is there anyone else here who had such an issue?
>
> Any ideas on how to make mplayer work from mythfrontend?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
> P.S. I have and NVidia 8600GT-based video adapter. My mplayer is
> configured to use vdpau by default:
> $ cat /home/mythtv/.mplayer/config
> vo=vdpau,xv,
> vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,
> cache=16384
> $

I recently found a file that wouldn't play if the -vc switch was
included, but would if it was left out. ie

mplayer -vo vdpau file.mkv would work

mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau file.mkv wouldn't

Mind you it was a weird file that xbmc would play as random coloured stripes!