[MPlayer-users] Strange MPlayer behavior when playing on TV

[Marcin Zajączkowski]

On 2008-02-16 15:50, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
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>> MPlayer works strange with X-server (only) started on TV. It shows the 
>> first frame (or some from the begin of movie) and stops. When 
>> paused/resumed it plays a few frames and stops again. The same when 
>> forwarded.
>>
>> I happens on Fedora 8. I have no problem with it on Fedora 5. I use the 
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>> I don't know if it's a problem with mplayer, but maybe you know what 
>> could be a reason (and maybe in addition how it could be fixed)?
> 
> It might have been fixed later in SVN. Please download the latest source
> snapshot, build it and test if it still misbehaves. Assuming it works with
> current SVN, if you could then identify the SVN commit that fixed the
> issue, I could apply it to the RPM package. I would do it myself, but
> because I have no TV, I can't test it.

Unfortunately latest source doesn't work properly on my TV either, but 
it gave me an idea to dig in another direction. I logged debug messages 
from both runs and discovered, that it is a problem with sound decoding, 
especially with pulseaudio.

It has a "feature" that sound isn't played when main X-server is not 
active (e.g. another is active - like in my case or tty console is 
opened). When I start movie on my TV, switch to default X I hear sound 
from the movie... With oss or alsa output movie is played with normal 
speed, but without sound at all. I will try to determine is it possible 
to tell pulseaudio to play in that situation, but there is already on 
open ticket about that (1 month):
http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/205

Thanks for your help
Marcin