[MPlayer-users] Mplayer plays slowly video files from my digital camera

Mon Aug 10 00:57:32 CEST 2009

Ok, upgrading to latest version of alsa, 1.0.20, fixed the problem.

It was not a mplayer bug but an alsa bug.

Thanks for your help.
Regards,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Floris <jkfloris at dds.nl> wrote:

> I'm using Debian Testing and the alsa version is now 1.0.20
>
> Anthony Hocquet schreef:
>
>  Ok, using OSS audio output makes mplayer to play this file flawlessly. But
>> turning back to alsa makes the problem re-appear. Which version of alsa
>> are
>> you using?
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Anthony Hocquet <
>> anthony.hocquet at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> That's weird. I have almost the same output and it plays slowly. If I
>>> disable sound using option "-ac null" then it plays perfectly. So it's
>>> not a
>>> video codec problem, but more an audio codec problem.
>>> Here is my output :
>>>
>>> MPlayer SVN-r29484-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
>>>
>>> Playing video-bug.avi.
>>> AVI file format detected.
>>> [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
>>> [aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
>>> VIDEO:  [MJPG]  640x480  24bpp  30.000 fps  14940.6 kbps (1823.8 kbyte/s)
>>> [ass] auto-open
>>> [ass] Init
>>> [ass] Updating font cache.
>>>
>>> ==========================================================================
>>> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
>>> Unsupported PixelFormat -1
>>> Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG)
>>>
>>> ==========================================================================
>>>
>>> ==========================================================================
>>> Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
>>> AUDIO: 11024 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 88.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 11024->11024)
>>> Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
>>>
>>> ==========================================================================
>>> AO: [alsa] 11024Hz 1ch u8 (1 bytes per sample)
>>> Starting playback...
>>> VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)
>>> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
>>> Opening video filter: [scale]
>>> VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
>>> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
>>> SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
>>> SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
>>> SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
>>> SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
>>> [swscaler @ 0xd25560]BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2
>>> [swscaler @ 0xd25560]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance
>>> scaling
>>> [swscaler @ 0xd25560]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance
>>> scaling
>>> [swscaler @ 0xd25560]using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12
>>> like)
>>> [swscaler @ 0xd25560]640x480 -> 640x480
>>> VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12
>>> A:   0.7 V:   0.8 A-V: -0.142 ct: -0.023  25/ 25 23%  8%  0.7% 0 0
>>> Exiting... (Quit)
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Floris <jkfloris at dds.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hey Anthony,
>>>>
>>>> I've played the video in Totem and in Mplayer and both plays
>>>> the video exactly the same.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe the output of mplayer will help you:
>>>>
>>>> floris at Jessica:~$ mplayer Downloads/video-bug.avi
>>>> MPlayer dev-SVN-r29417
>>>>
>>>> Playing Downloads/video-bug.avi.
>>>> AVI file format detected.
>>>> [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
>>>> [aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
>>>> VIDEO:  [MJPG]  640x480  24bpp  30.000 fps  14940.6 kbps (1823.8
>>>> kbyte/s)
>>>> open: No such file or directory
>>>> [MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
>>>> open: No such file or directory
>>>> [MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
>>>> [VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
>>>> s3fb: can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>>>> [vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1
>>>>
>>>> ==========================================================================
>>>> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
>>>> Unsupported PixelFormat -1
>>>> Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG)
>>>>
>>>> ==========================================================================
>>>>
>>>> ==========================================================================
>>>> Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
>>>> AUDIO: 11024 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 88.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 11024->11024)
>>>> Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
>>>>
>>>> ==========================================================================
>>>> AO: [alsa] 11024Hz 1ch u8 (1 bytes per sample)
>>>> Starting playback...
>>>> VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)
>>>> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
>>>> Opening video filter: [scale]
>>>> VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
>>>> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
>>>> SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
>>>> SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
>>>> SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
>>>> SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
>>>> [swscaler @ 0x8a92aa0]BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2
>>>> [swscaler @ 0x8a92aa0]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance
>>>> scaling
>>>> [swscaler @ 0x8a92aa0]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance
>>>> scaling
>>>> [swscaler @ 0x8a92aa0]using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling
>>>> (YV12
>>>> like)
>>>> [swscaler @ 0x8a92aa0]640x480 -> 640x480
>>>> VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12
>>>> A:   5.0 V:   5.0 A-V:  0.000 ct:  0.000 150/150 14% 12%  0.4% 0 0
>>>>
>>>> Exiting... (End of file)
>>>>
>>>> good luck
>>>>
>>>> floris
>>>>
>>>> Anthony Hocquet schreef:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> When I record a video using my digital camera, a Canon Ixus 850 IS,
>>>>> mplayer
>>>>> seems to get in trouble to play it. Here is the video file :
>>>>> http://rapidshare.com/files/265564350/video-bug.avi.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Totem video player handle it correctly. I'm using latest revision of
>>>>> mplayer
>>>>> :
>>>>> MPlayer SVN-r29484-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
>>>>>
>>>>> My OS information : Ubuntu 9.04 x64.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Anthony Hocquet
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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