[MPlayer-dvb] mplayer hangs after a few movies

[Nico Sabbi]

Lukas Ruetz wrote:

>hello
>
>once again - i'm not able to get a stable playback over a long time ..
>
>* mplayer hangs after a few files (no matter if enqueued or played separately)
>  always at the beginning of a file, never in a file. no error-message!
>
>* this problem occurs on different machines with different linux-distr.
>  and different mplayer-versions (from v1.0pre3 - pre6)
>
>* the things that have been equal in all my tests are the technotrend DVB-S
>  card rev1.3 (only the type, not the same card) and its firmware. all PCs
>  have ASUS-mainboards (although i can't imagine that this could be a problem)
>
>* i use the DVB-drivers/kernel-modules that come with the kernel. now i use
>  the latest kernel (from vanilla-sources) 2.6.10-150-smp
>
>* this 'bug' can also be reproduced on a VDR, but nobody seems to know that
>  problem. just call a small mpeg-file often enough and mplayer hangs. i think
>  it's because nobody plays many videos after each other.
>
>and that's the point - WHERE is the difference between playing some movies
>'sometimes' without any problems and my case, playing more files after each
>other in short intervals.
>
>if the dvb-device could not be released in that short time, mplayer would
>complain - but it doesn't.
>
>start-command (the other options are default-options)
>  /usr/bin/mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao oss -framedrop -cache 4096 -nolirc
>    -really-quiet file1.mpg file2.mpg file3.mpg >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
>
>
>please tell me everything that comes to your mind - i tried everything that
>i could think of
>
>thx - lukas
>  
>

how do those files differ (resolution, bitrate)?
Did you try to change firmware?
Those cards are nasty beasts: either the firmware works correctly or you 
are stuck.
Recently it was upgraded, you should ask linux-dvb at linuxtv.org ML.