[clfswm-devel] Problems with MPlayer

[Philippe Brochard]

[Sorry for the lag]

Oleksandr Kozachuk writes:

> For some reason, my full answer was not sent to the mailing list (i
> think i have used wrong from address), so here the full answer again
> (corrected). Sorry for spamming the mailing list a bit ....
>
>>> Hi!
>> Hi, welcome on this list.
> Thank you :-)
>
>> Please, can you test with another video with smaller sizes?
> I have tried with different sizes and different formats, here full
> output of a mplayer run:
>
> --- SNIP ---
> $> mplayer -fs /tmp/video.mkv
> MPlayer SVN-r32219-snapshot-4.5.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
> 159 audio & 348 video codecs
>
> Playing /tmp/video.mkv
> libavformat file format detected.
> [matroska,webm @ 0x7f7ff77cc010] Estimating duration from bitrate,
> this may be inaccurate
> [lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
> [lavf] stream 1: audio (ac3), -aid 0
> [lavf] stream 2: subtitle (unknown), -sid 0
> VIDEO:  [H264]  704x480  0bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
> ==========================================================================
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
> ==========================================================================
> AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> Starting playback...
> Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> VO: [xv] 704x480 => 704x528 Planar YV12  [fs]
> A:   0.2 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.192 ct:  0.000   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
>
> Exiting... (Quit)
> --- SNIP ---
>
> I have tried very different sizes and formats, it does not work.
>
I've no clue on this. I'm using a more recent mplayer than yours
(r34540). I don't know if this is related.

Some things you can try:

  1) Start mplayer in a floating frame : open a new frame and tell it to
  not manage any children (Second key-> f -> w -> u).
  And try different window format to change the aspect ratio.

  2) Start mplayer in fullscreen mode or with different drivers 
  (mplayer -vo help).

If something works, please tell it here to add an entry in the wiki.

>> Can you also test with VLC?
> No, i have not installed it jet, but i will try it latter.
>
>> Does CLFSWM reports anything?
> No, should I activate some debug output or similar?
>
No, CLFSWM is not bugging here. I think it's mplayer who don't like to
be resized by CLFSWM.

>> What is the video size and what is your screen size?
>
> --- SNIP ---
> $> xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1920
> VGA-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
> axis) 521mm x 293mm
>    1920x1080      60.0*+
> --- SNIP ---
>
Thanks.

> Best regards,
> Alex.
>
Cheers,

Philippe