[MPlayer-users] Need help in using mplayer in play a video file

[Dragan Noveski]

Meryl Silverburgh wrote:
> Thanks. Do you think upgrading to mplayer 1.0 will help my problem?
>
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>
> On 1/29/07, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 29 January 2007 at 20:39, Meryl Silverburgh wrote:
>> [...]
>> > I am using mplayer1.0rc1 on fedora 5. Here is my output:
>> >
>> > $ mplayer ~/videos/transformer.mov
>> > MPlayer 1.0pre8-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
>>
>> That's not rc1...
>>
>> > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz (Family: 6,
>> > Model: 9, Stepping: 5)
>> > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>> >
>> > Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
>> > Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your
>> > system startup scripts.
>> > Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
>> > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
>> > Can't init input joystick
>> > Setting up LIRC support...
>> > mplayer: could not connect to socket
>> > mplayer: No such file or directory
>> > Failed to open LIRC support.
>> > You will not be able to use your remote control.
>> >
>> > Playing /home/meryl/videos/transformer.mov.
>> > ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
>> > Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
>> > VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x532 24bpp 23.952 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
>> > Clip info:
>> > name: Transformers - Trailer #1
>> > author: Yahoo! Movies
>> > copyright: � 2006, Paramount Pictures
>> > 
>> ========================================================================== 
>>
>> > Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
>> > AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
>> > Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)
>> > decoder)
>> > 
>> ========================================================================== 
>>
>> > 
>> ========================================================================== 
>>
>> > Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
>> > Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
>> > 
>> ========================================================================== 
>>
>> > AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
>> > Starting playback...
>> > VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 532 (preferred colorspace: Planar 
>> YV12)
>> > VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
>> > Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
>> > VO: [xv] 1280x532 => 1280x532 Planar YV12
>> > A: 13.0 V: 13.0 A-V: 0.004 ct: 0.022 313/313 35% 4% 1.5% 1 0
>> > Exiting... (Quit)
>>
>> No obvious problems here.
>>
>> Regards,
>> R.
>>
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did you tried to specify the video output in the mplayer console command?
if not, try sth like `$mplayer -vo help` it will print out, all off the 
available possibilities.
in my case, mplayer only works with xv and x11 vo.

cheers,
doc