[MPlayer-users] mplayer kills with a broken frame error

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 01:34:09PM +0530, Mac Smith wrote:
> 
> On 21-Apr-2012, at 12:18 PM, Mac Smith wrote:
> 
> > On 21-Apr-2012, at 11:18 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > 
> >> Mac Smith <macsmith.us <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> 
> >>> I am using mplayer to play movie files from a http server (apache). 
> >>> If due to some error the connection drops and comes back soon, 
> >>> mplayer does not tries to reconnect and gets killed with a Broken 
> >>> frame error.
> >> 
> >> Please post complete, uncut console output to show that you are 
> >> using current svn (older versions are not supported).
> >> 
> >> Carl Eugen
> > 
> > $ /usr/local/bin/mplayer -ao alsa -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau http://172.16.0.7/movies/NO_STRINGS_ATTACHED_VAMWP.MPG
> > MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 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.
> > Loading extension-related profile 'extension.MPG'
> > 
> > Playing http://172.16.0.7/movies/NO_STRINGS_ATTACHED_VAMWP.MPG.
> > Connecting to server 172.16.0.7[172.16.0.7]: 80...
> > Cache size set to 20000 KBytes
> > Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   
> > TS file format detected.
> > VIDEO MPEG2(pid=33) AUDIO MPA(pid=36) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 2
> > VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  4000.0 kbps (500.0 kbyte/s)
> > ==========================================================================
> > Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
> > Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> > Selected video codec: [ffmpeg12vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1/2 (VDPAU))
> > ==========================================================================
> > ==========================================================================
> > Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
> > AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
> > Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
> > ==========================================================================
> > AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> > Starting playback...
> > [VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
> > [vdpau] Failed creating VDPAU decoder: invalid/unsupported VdpDecoderProfile value
> > VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 1280x720 MPEG2 VDPAU acceleration  [zoom]
> > A:  50.6 V:  50.6 A-V:  0.001 ct: -0.476 1244/1244  2%  2%  1.4% 3 0 0% 
> > Broken frame at 0x128DC0                                                  
> > A:  51.1 V:  51.3 A-V: -0.243 ct: -0.544 1263/1263  2%  2%  1.4% 3 0 0% 
> > 
> > Exiting... (End of file)
> > 
> > 
> 
> also tried
> 
> MPlayer SVN-r34870-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
> 
> but its the same

Am am really certain it is _not_ the same.
That version will try reconnection once (which will fix it if the
connection broke due to pausing for a long time), though if that fails
it will give up. Retrying and thus hanging possibly forever is rarely
a good idea.
If it still fails that should mean your sever was down long enough to
cause a network timeout and then refuses a reconnect still after that.
Well, it could be the code does not handle a orderly server shutdown
well since the network timeout does not come into play then.
But you should be able to see from MPlayer's output when it tries to
reconnect.