[MPlayer-users] OSD problems with DVDs

Davide Capodaglio davidecapod at inwind.it
Thu Jan 19 10:08:28 CET 2006


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski ha scritto:
> On Wednesday, 18 January 2006 at 23:17, Davide Capodaglio wrote:
>> Hi everybody, these are the problems I have with DVDs and OSD:
>>
>> - sometimes the total time is lower than real time, for all the film length
>> - sometimes the total time is lower than real time, but at a certain point of 
>> the film it becomes the correct time
>> - sometimes the current time at a certain point goes back to 0: e.g. 
>> 00:00-31:00, then resets to 00:00, then 00:00-28:32, reset to 00:00, etc. 
>> (VOB boundary??).
>> (For this I produced a patch, and now the current time follow the total time, 
>> but if this is wrong I'm stuck again)
>> - the strangest case: the total time is 00:00, but the current time goes on
>>
>> All these DVDs with problems work perfectly under xine and even with a simple 
>> lsdvd.
>> Can anyone report these problems as well?
> 
> This is all normal, as MPlayer shows the REAL pts, as decoded from the
> video stream. MPEG pts don't have to be monotonic AFAIK.

Well it may be normal for mplayer, but in fact it's an annoying bug, not 
present for example in xine.

>> Little OT: If someone is interested I wrote a patch to show CPU usage, frames 
>> dropped etc (the last part of the status line) as OSD level 4.
> 
> Please post the patch.
> 

Attached osd4.patch (it's against mplayer 1.0-pre7try2).
Any feedback is appreciated.

> Regards,
> R.
> 

Bye
Davide
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