[MPlayer-users] play video on FreeBSD

[Tom Evans]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Xavier <xaviermplayerquestion at aim.com> wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> On Ubuntu 11.10 I try:
>
> $ mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video1:input=1 tv://
> mplayer: Symbol `ff_codec_bmp_tags' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
> MPlayer SVN-r33713-4.6.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
> 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 tv://.
> TV file format detected.
> Selected driver: v4l2
>  name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
>  author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski at zpr.uni-koeln.de>
>  comment: first try, more to come ;-)
> Selected device: EM2860/SAA711X Reference Design
>  Capabilities:  video capture  read/write  streaming
>  supported norms: 0 = NTSC; 1 = NTSC-M; 2 = NTSC-M-JP; 3 = NTSC-M-KR; 4 = NTSC-443; 5 = PAL; 6 = PAL-BG; 7 = PAL-H; 8 = PAL-I; 9 = PAL-DK; 10 = PAL-M; 11 = PAL-N; 12 = PAL-Nc; 13 = PAL-60; 14 = SECAM; 15 = SECAM-B; 16 = SECAM-G; 17 = SECAM-H; 18 = SECAM-DK; 19 = SECAM-L; 20 = SECAM-Lc;
>  inputs: 0 = S-Video; 1 = Composite1;
>  Current input: 1
>  Current format: YUYV
> v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
> v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
> v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
> Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
> 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: Permission denied.
> [VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
> [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
> [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
> [VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
> [VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
> [VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
> [swscaler @ 0x95eb6e0] BICUBIC scaler, from yuyv422 to bgra using MMX2
> VO: [x11] 640x480 => 640x480 BGRA
> Selected video codec: [rawyuy2] vfm: raw (RAW YUY2)
> ==========================================================================
> Audio: no sound
> Starting playback...
> V:   0.0  73/ 73 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
> v4l2: 75 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped.
>
> Exiting... (Quit)
>
> And it work fine.
>
> On FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
>
> I try:
>
>> mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:input=1 tv://
> Creating config file: /home/xxavi/.mplayer/config
> MPlayer SVN-r34449-snapshot-4.6.4 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
> 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 tv://.
> TV file format detected.
> Selected driver: v4l2
>  name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
>  author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski at zpr.uni-koeln.de>
>  comment: first try, more to come ;-)
> Selected device: EM2860/SAA711X Reference Design
>  Capabilities:  video capture  read/write  streaming
>  supported norms: 0 = NTSC; 1 = NTSC-M; 2 = NTSC-M-JP; 3 = NTSC-M-KR; 4 = NTSC-443; 5 = PAL; 6 = PAL-BG; 7 = PAL-H; 8 = PAL-I; 9 = PAL-DK; 10 = PAL-M; 11 = PAL-N; 12 = PAL-Nc; 13 = PAL-60; 14 = SECAM; 15 = SECAM-B; 16 = SECAM-G; 17 = SECAM-H; 18 = SECAM-DK; 19 = SECAM-L; 20 = SECAM-Lc;
>  inputs: 0 = S-Video; 1 = Composite1;
>  Current input: 0
>  Current format: YUYV
> Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
> v4l2: ioctl queue buffer failed: Invalid argument
> v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped.
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
> And don't play the video.
>
> How can I play the video on FreeBSD ?
>
> Thanks, see you.

You are better off asking on freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org . I'm not
sure, but I suspect you need newer versions of cuse4bsd and webcamd
that support converting v4l2 ioctls.

I'm afraid I only have experience of v4l-dvb under FreeBSD, which
works without incident with mplayer.

Cheers

Tom