[MPlayer-users] Trouble playing HD Windows Media

Tue May 16 08:48:17 CEST 2006

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I'm having problems playing a few high-definition Windows Media movies
with mplayer. First off, the video is not scaled to match my display;
I'm running 1024x768 at the moment and these files are higher resolution
than that. The video does not scale unless I enter fullscreen.

Somewhere between five or fifteen seconds into the file (depending on
the file), I'll get a message like this:

"A:  13.1 V:  13.1 A-V:  0.014 ct:  0.121  62/ 62  8%  8%  0.8% 0 0
Too many video packets in the buffer: (184 in 8500986 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option."

and my sound'll cut out. It is occassionally accompanied by a header
informing me that my system may be too slow to play the file (it's not;
it's an Athlon 64 3200+ w/ 1GB RAM in dual channel).  The video
continues to play at full res and without noticeable problems. Sometimes
if I seek through it sound will come back at certain parts. This does
not happen every time and does not happen if I don't seek.

This is occurring within a 32-bit chroot on an AMD64 installation. Other
HD Windows Media files play fine in it. It happens with both the binary
provided by the testing repository at debian-multimedia.org and the CVS
version I compiled and tried directly before sending this.

The files are:
callofduty3_trailer-highdef.wmv from
http://www.fileplanet.com/163225/160000/fileinfo/Call-of-Duty-3-E3-2006-Trailer-%5BHigh-Res%5D
169_biahh_om_mul_050706_hd.wmv at
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/brothersinarms3/media.html:  Brothers
In Arms Hell's Highway Official Movie 1; subscriber only HD video.
brothersarms3_ot_mul_050106_hd.wmv at
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/brothersinarms3/media.html: Brothers
In Arms Hell's Highway Official Trailer 1; subscriber only HD video.
Maybe it has something to do with World War II. :p

Specifying -zoom on the file 169_biahh_om_mul_050706_hd.wmv makes it not
die, but some of the old picture remains in place and it's bad. This
method doesn't work with the other two.

Nothing else I've tried has worked: -ao oss, -ni, -nobps, -framedrop,
- -zoom with the others, and compiling mplayer with several different
configurations.

I'm running Debian Etch (in and out of the chroot) on kernel
2.6.15-1-amd64-k8. gcc version 4.0.3 in the chroot.

gcc -v says: "debian:~/mplayercvs32/main# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
- --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f95,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
- --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
- --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
- --program-suffix=-4.0 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
- --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-awt=gtk-default
- --enable-gtk-cairo
- --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/jre
- --enable-mpfr --disable-werror --with-tune=i686
- --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.3 (Debian 4.0.3-1)"

uname -a says: "Linux debian 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8 #2 Tue Mar 7 06:53:26 UTC
2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

I don't know how to get the options mplayer was compiled with, but as
stated above, I tried on variously configured installations.

This is the terminal output after one play-thru of
brothersarms3_ot_mul_050106_hd.wmv: "debian:~/mplayercvs32/main#
/root/mplayercvs32/main/mplayer
/home/jeff/169_brothersarms3_ot_mul_050106_hd.wmv
MPlayer dev-CVS-060516-05:27-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 Newcastle,Winchester,San
Diego,Venice; Sempron Palermo (Family: 15, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2

Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be
readable by the user.)

Playing /home/jeff/169_brothersarms3_ot_mul_050106_hd.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
VIDEO:  [WMV3]  1280x720  24bpp  1000.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [dmo] Win32/DMO decoders
GetOutput r=0x0   size:24576  align:1
StreamCount r=0x0  1  1
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32004->192000)
Selected audio codec: [wma9dmo] afm: dmo (Windows Media Audio 9 DMO)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
GetOutput r=0x0   size:2764800  align:1
StreamCount r=0x0  1  1
Decoder supports the following formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU RGB8 RGB555
RGB565 RGB24 RGB32
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [x11] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGRA special converter
Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfm: dmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
A:  13.1 V:  13.1 A-V:  0.013 ct:  0.121  62/ 62  8%  8%  0.8% 0 0
Too many video packets in the buffer: (184 in 8500986 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
A:  13.1 V:  13.2 A-V: -0.045 ct:  0.117  63/ 63  8%  9%  0.9% 0 0
Too many video packets in the buffer: (183 in 8449123 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
A:  13.9 V: 125.6 A-V:-111.627 ct:-11.103 2757/2757 29% 17%  0.0% 0 0

Exiting... (End of file)"

All help would be greatly appreciated. : )

Thank you,
Jeff Cook
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