[MPlayer-users] Re: MPlayer-users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 82
Tate Austin
tate.austin at graysail.com
Wed Jun 16 15:25:04 CEST 2004
Does Quicktime play soundless for you guys too? Is that just the way it has
to be on mplayer or are the codecs on the website a viable fix?
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> 1. Re: Real Crash (Roberto Togni)
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> 3. Re: Is there a way to swap left and right audio channels
> (speakers)? (Stefan Lange)
> 4. Re: mplayer says that my computer is too slow
> (D Richard Felker III)
> 5. Returned Mail: Delivery problems (MobilPosta at pgsm.hu)
> 6. Re: Is there a way to swap left and right audio channels
> (speakers)? (rcooley)
> 7. Re: Is there a way to swap left and right audio channels
> (speakers)? (JLB)
> 8. Re: mplayer says that my computer is too slow (rcooley)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:43:40 +0200
> From: Roberto Togni <r_togni at tiscali.it>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Real Crash
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Message-ID: <20040615194340.GA1179 at tower2.myhome.qwe>
> Content-Type: text/plain; Format=Flowed; DelSp=Yes; charset=ISO-8859-1
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> On 2004.06.15 21:24, Ian Blanes wrote:
> >
> [...]
> > (gdb) r -v http://www.qc.fraunhofer.de/doc/movie/eiqu-56k.rm
> > Starting program: /usr/bin/mplayer -v
> > http://www.qc.fraunhofer.de/doc/movie/eiqu-56k.rm
> > [New Thread 16384 (LWP 1007)]
> > MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> [...]
> > skipping -8 extra header bytes
> [...]
> Known problem with pre4, with all Real files, unless you compile with
> debug enabled.
> Please upgrade to CVS.
>
> Ciao,
> Roberto
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:19:48 -0500
> From: "Carl Karsten" <carl at personnelware.com>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer says that my computer is too slow
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karol" <troloo at zamoyski.edu.pl>
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
<mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer says that my computer is too slow
>
>
> > Carl Karsten wrote:
> > >>Hi, I have IBM X21 laptop (PIII 700, 384MB RAM, ATI Rage 4MB) and I've
> > >>installed Fedora Core 2. Then I compiled newest mplayer, everything
> > >>seems fine but the fact, that when I play a movie/videoclip using for
> > >>example SDL mplayer says that my computer is too slow. Does it really
> > >>have such high system requirements? On WindowsXP I didn't have any
> > >>problems with DivX/XviD/MPG. Should I recompile SDL for my machine?
> > > run mplayer -vo xv movie.avi
> > > see if A) it runs and B) how much CPU it uses.
> > >
> > > Post the output from mplayer so we can see what it is doing.
> > Ok, I have some more data about my problem. I don't know if I expressed
> > exactly what is my problem, I'll try to be more specific. I run a movie
> > under X by command
> > mplayer -vo xv /mnt/dos-d/Movies/Videoclips/Black\ Eyed\ Peas\ -\ Hey\
> > Mama.mpg
> >
> > And the output looks like this:
> >
> > MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
> >
> > CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 697.4 MHz
> > (Family: 6, Stepping: 10)
> > Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
> > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> > Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
> >
> > Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or
> > directory
> > Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
> > Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> > '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> > Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> > '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> > Using built-in default codecs.conf.
> > font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> > Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
> > chars)
> > Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
> > Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
> > directory
> > Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such
> > file or directory
> > Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
> >
> > Playing /mnt/dos-d/Movies/Videoclips/Black Eyed Peas - Hey Mama.mpg.
> > LMLM4 Stream Format not found
> > MPEG-PS file format detected.
> > VIDEO: MPEG1 352x240 (aspect 12) 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0
kbyte/s)
> >
==========================================================================
> > Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
> > MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done
> > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0 kbit)
> > Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
> >
==========================================================================
> > vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local
> > display)
> >
==========================================================================
> > Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
> > VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
> > Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> > Opening video filter: [scale]
> > The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> > VDecoder init failed :(
> > Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1
> > Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
> >
==========================================================================
> > Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
> > AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int
> > AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
> > AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
> > Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
> > Starting playback...
> > VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
> > VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> > VO: [xv] 352x240 => 352x264 Planar YV12
> >
> >
> > And after a while it goes into something like this:
> > ************************************************
> > **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
>
> > The problem is that top show 10% CPU usage and about 2.1% of memory
> > usage. I'm really sorry for long posts. Hope it can help you.
> >
>
> 10% for mplayer, or 10% idle?
>
>
> Try to get rid of this:
> > Opening video filter: [scale]
>
> > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> > VO: [xv] 352x240 => 352x264 Planar YV12
>
> mplayer -fs -vo xv /mnt/dos-d/Movies/Videoclips/Black\ Eyed\ Peas\ -\ Hey\
> Mama.mpg
>
> or mplayer -zoom ...
>
> But -fs crashes my box, I have to hit F once it is playing. surprised
noone has
> commented on my 2 crash reports (sniff.)
>
> Carl K
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:46:48 +0200
> From: Stefan Lange <hoirkman at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Is there a way to swap left and right
> audio channels (speakers)?
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Message-ID: <40CF6E48.7090407 at gmx.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
> JLB wrote:
> > I have some incorrectly encoded videos that have the left and right
> > channels swapped.
> >
> > Without actually moving my speakers every time I want to play such a
> > thing... is there a way for me to have mplayer swap the channels while
> > playing such a file?
> >
>
> from the mplayer html-docs:
>
> 2.3.2.4.6. Extrastereo
>
> This plugin (linearly) increases the difference between left and right
> channels (like the XMMS extrastereo plugin) which gives some sort of
> "live" effect to playback.
>
> Usage:
>
> mplayer media.avi -aop list=extrastereo
> mplayer media.avi -aop list=extrastereo:mul=3.45
>
> The default coefficient (mul) is a float number that defaults to 2.5. If
> you set it to 0.0, you will have mono sound (average of both channels).
> If you set it to 1.0, sound will be unchanged, if you set it to -1.0,
> left and right channels will be swapped.
>
> regards,
> Stefan
>
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --Jessica
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:33:46 -0400
> From: D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer says that my computer is too slow
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Message-ID: <20040615223346.GP26953 at brightrain.aerifal.cx>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:19:48PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Karol" <troloo at zamoyski.edu.pl>
> > To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
<mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:16 AM
> > Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer says that my computer is too slow
> >
> >
> > > Carl Karsten wrote:
> > > >>Hi, I have IBM X21 laptop (PIII 700, 384MB RAM, ATI Rage 4MB) and
I've
> > > >>installed Fedora Core 2. Then I compiled newest mplayer, everything
> > > >>seems fine but the fact, that when I play a movie/videoclip using
for
> > > >>example SDL mplayer says that my computer is too slow. Does it
really
> > > >>have such high system requirements? On WindowsXP I didn't have any
> > > >>problems with DivX/XviD/MPG. Should I recompile SDL for my machine?
> > > > run mplayer -vo xv movie.avi
> > > > see if A) it runs and B) how much CPU it uses.
> > > >
> > > > Post the output from mplayer so we can see what it is doing.
> > > Ok, I have some more data about my problem. I don't know if I
expressed
> > > exactly what is my problem, I'll try to be more specific. I run a
movie
> > > under X by command
> > > mplayer -vo xv /mnt/dos-d/Movies/Videoclips/Black\ Eyed\ Peas\ -\ Hey\
> > > Mama.mpg
> > >
> > > And the output looks like this:
> > >
> > > MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
> > >
> > > CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 697.4 MHz
> > > (Family: 6, Stepping: 10)
> > > Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
> > > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> > > Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
> > >
> > > Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file
or
> > > directory
> > > Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
> > > Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> > > '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> > > Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> > > '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> > > Using built-in default codecs.conf.
> > > font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> > > Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
> > > chars)
> > > Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
> > > Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file
or
> > > directory
> > > Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No
such
> > > file or directory
> > > Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
> > >
> > > Playing /mnt/dos-d/Movies/Videoclips/Black Eyed Peas - Hey Mama.mpg.
> > > LMLM4 Stream Format not found
> > > MPEG-PS file format detected.
> > > VIDEO: MPEG1 352x240 (aspect 12) 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0
kbyte/s)
> > >
==========================================================================
> > > Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
> > > MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done
> > > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0
kbit)
> > > Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
> > >
==========================================================================
> > > vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local
> > > display)
> > >
==========================================================================
> > > Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
> > > VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
> > > Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> > > Opening video filter: [scale]
> > > The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> > > VDecoder init failed :(
> > > Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder
libmpeg2-v0.3.1
> > > Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
> > >
==========================================================================
> > > Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
> > > AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int
> > > AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
> > > AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
> > > Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
> > > Starting playback...
> > > VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
> > > VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> > > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> > > VO: [xv] 352x240 => 352x264 Planar YV12
> > >
> > >
> > > And after a while it goes into something like this:
> > > ************************************************
> > > **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
> >
> > > The problem is that top show 10% CPU usage and about 2.1% of memory
> > > usage. I'm really sorry for long posts. Hope it can help you.
> > >
> >
> > 10% for mplayer, or 10% idle?
>
> I would assume the former, on a coppermine 700 with vcd...
>
> > Try to get rid of this:
> > > Opening video filter: [scale]
>
> Irrelevant. This was just tried because of mpegpes. When that failed,
> scale was dropped.
>
> > > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> > > VO: [xv] 352x240 => 352x264 Planar YV12
> >
> > mplayer -fs -vo xv /mnt/dos-d/Movies/Videoclips/Black\ Eyed\ Peas\ -\
Hey\
> > Mama.mpg
> >
> > or mplayer -zoom ...
>
> No need. vo_xv was already being used.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:26:10 -0700
> From: rcooley <rcooley at spamcop.net>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Is there a way to swap left and right
> audio channels (speakers)?
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
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> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:57:11 -0400 (EDT)
> JLB <jlb at twu.net> wrote:
>
> > is there a way for me to have mplayer swap the channels while
> > playing such a file?
>
> What you need is "-af pan".
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:25:06 -0400 (EDT)
> From: JLB <jlb at twu.net>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Is there a way to swap left and right
> audio channels (speakers)?
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0406152224560.4741 at twu.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> ...What does this mean? "Pan"?
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, rcooley wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:26:10 -0700
> > From: rcooley <rcooley at spamcop.net>
> > Reply-To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
> > <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> > To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
> > <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> > Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Is there a way to swap left and right audio
> > channels (speakers)?
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:57:11 -0400 (EDT)
> > JLB <jlb at twu.net> wrote:
> >
> > > is there a way for me to have mplayer swap the channels while
> > > playing such a file?
> >
> > What you need is "-af pan".
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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>
> --
> Jessica L. Blank, Systems Administrator, twu.net
> Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:31:41 -0700
> From: rcooley <rcooley at spamcop.net>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer says that my computer is too slow
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Message-ID: <20040615193141.314e7d8d.rcooley at spamcop.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:16:42 +0200
> Karol <troloo at zamoyski.edu.pl> wrote:
>
>
> > Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
> > - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
> > - Try -ao sdl or use ALSA 0.5 or the OSS emulation of ALSA 0.9.
> > - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good
> > start.
>
> > - Broken file
> > - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
> > - Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
> > - Try -cache 8192.
>
> > If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.
> >
> >
> > The problem is that top show 10% CPU usage and about 2.1% of memory
>
> Okay, so it's not a CPU limitation, but have you tried the other things
> it TELLS YOU TO DO? -ao sdl? -autosync? -cache? I know you didn't
> follow the last suggestion and read bugreports.html, or you'd be
> providing proper information.
>
> Personally, I'd be give odds that you didn't run 'hdparm' on the
> harddrive you're playing from, and it's not fast enough to keep up
> without DMA enabled...
>
>
>
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