[MPlayer-users] can't seek passed a certain point in dvd faceoff

[c0ldshadow at deeptide.com]

first off i would like to say i have a great amount of respect for the
mplayer dev team. i use mplayer and mencoder for making avi files and the
software has been very helpful to me. i hope that i am able to help out
with this bug report. if you all want some additional information or have
questions please let me know.

recently i have encountered some problems while trying to play the dvd,
faceoff. i am using winxp sp2 and the experiencing the same problems in
both pre7 and pre8. i have not tried anything before pre7. from the
command line i am using:

mplayer -dvd-device E:\ dvd://1

the dvd starts to play normally. i cannot seek past 7 minutes and 30
seconds into the dvd, however. if i let the movie play normally, it plays
past 7:30. but once i am past 7:30 and i try to seek forward, the movie
restarts at the very beginning. if i do pageup or pagedown the movie
restarts.

someone told me to try adding the -forceidx option but this didn't help.

i highly doubt the dvd has a problem, because i am able to play it fine in
win dvd 4. i actually exhanged the dvd but even after this i'm still
having the same problems with mplayer.

i use the following options with mencoder to make avi files of all my
favorite dvds (obviously i change the crop and scale settings though).

mencoder -alang en -sws 2 dvd://1 -dvd-device E:\ -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:vbitrate=1024:vpass=1:autoaspect:trell:qprd:cbp:mv0:v4mv
-vf crop=720:368:0:54,scale=720:-10 -oac lavc -lavcopts
acodec=ac3:abitrate=224 -o faceoff.avi
mencoder -alang en -sws 2 dvd://1 -dvd-device E:\ -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:vbitrate=1024:vpass=2:autoaspect:trell:qprd:cbp:mv0:v4mv
-vf crop=720:368:0:54,scale=720:-10 -oac lavc -lavcopts
acodec=ac3:abitrate=224 -o faceoff.avi

when i tried using these commands for faceoff, after about 24 hours i had
an output file around 2.5 gigabytes, and progress was 0%, so i cancelled
the operation. i tried the same commands again and had the same problems.

here is the output i get when i play the movie:

C:\unzipped\mplayer>mplayer -dvd-device E:\ dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:    Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz (Family: 15, Model:
2, Step
ping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring.
Cannot load font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

Playing dvd://1.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 2 titles on this DVD.
There are 41 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
AC3: 2.0 (dolby)  48000 Hz  192.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: 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.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [directx] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12

demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching
framerate.




maybe i am just doing something stupid or there is an easy solution to the
problems i am having. i figured this could be a bug though.

hope this information is helpful and that if this is indeed a bug i can
help provide the necessary information to fix it.

respect,
-avery