[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [vdr] Re: mplayer and mpeg4 ?!

[Johannes Feigl]

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Hi,

arpi, please take a look at this, it was postet at the vdr-mailinglist.
do you also get them?

mfg johannes


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Hoffmann" <ma.hoff at t-online.de>
To: <vdr at linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 10:26 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: mplayer and mpeg4 ?!


> the mplayer.sh version 0.0.4 was written by me - and should work - however
it
> might help if you send me the console output of the script - maybe scaling
> goes wrong ...
>
> However this is quite an old version and the new recommended method is as
> follows.
> Use my patch
> http://ma.hoff.bei.t-online.de/patches/mplayer/dvbscale_patch.diff
> to patch mplayer cvs and reduce mplayer.sh to one line:
> exec /usr/local/bin/mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -afm 9 -lircconf
> /video0/.lircrc -framedrop -vop
> lavc=2,expand=0:576:-1:-1:1,scale=0:0,dvbscale "$1" </dev/null ;
> (be sure to change -lircconf *** to your needs and drom -afm 9 if you do
not
> like AC3 Audio via DVBs Card on SPDIF !)
>
> This should do the job - or at least does it for me !
>
> There are at least two advantages over the mplayer.sh 0.0.4 - this one
scales
> every avi to full screen  (or to full x and black bars - in case of cinema
> format) - and treats those avis created from dvb recordings (e.g. 480x576)
> which have in fact wrong aspect ratio specially by forcing them 4:3 full
> screen !
>
> So, i use this patched mplayer and simple mplayer.sh myself and have not
found
> any avi that could not be displayed !
>
> However, i do not know if mplayer.sh must be modified for mpeg playback
...
>
> Martin.
>
> Am Freitag, 30. August 2002 23:45 schrieb Otto Brandstätter:
> > Am Freitag, 30. August 2002 18:28 schrieben Sie:
> > > Otto Brandstätter wrote:
> > > > Good afternoon list !
> > > >
> > > > I have the following problem:
> > > > when using mplayer with vdr everything is fine, except when I try to
> > > > play mpeg4 files I created from vdr-files using mencoder.
> > > > I hear the sound, but my tv screen stays black.
> > > > It _seems_ as I could also seek within the files, but there is no
> > > > picture. I do not get error messages in console nor in
> > > > /var/log/messages I am using mplayer 0.90pre6-2.96, but I also tried
> > > > the cvs version. Also installed divx4linux501.
> > > >
> > > > Did anyone have similar problems ? Any hints ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks a lot !
> > > >
> > > > Otto
> > >
> > > What does your mplayer.sh look like ?
> >
> > My mplayer.sh is: (this is a script i found somewhere in the
internet...)
> > i suppose, this is not the problem...
> >
> > thanks for your help !
> >
> > Otto
> >
>
>
>
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