mplayer doesn't work ?

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Hi all,

I just tried to view a DVD via mplayer (Standard Version NOT MuiMplayer), as DVPlayer cannot handle this specific one. I encountered general problems playing mp4 + vob files, as well as DVD via mplayer:

I am using Mplayer Altivetec version from OS4Depot. All it does, is bringing a crackling noise, it doesn't open a window. Console output says:

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Unable to open a windowFATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).

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Unable to open a window
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver
...
FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).

MUI-Mplayer works, but viewing DVD's which playback fine with DVPlayer are more like a slideshow ?

Ideas wellcome

[trevordick]

Does this help?

http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz ... =33&t=1071

Trevor

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@trevor
thanx for reply, but no, it doesn't help, as this is about MUI-Mplayer (starting with second post)....

[ChrisH]

I'm not sure why you would want to use plain old (and buggy) MPlayer, when we have MUI-MPlayer, but on the X1000 the video driver (-vo) needs to be cgx_wpa , while the audio driver needs to be ahi_dev (or possibly ahi).

To avoid "slideshow playback" issues with MPlayer, make sure you do NOT use framedropping, because this seems broken by design. Possibly also relevant is I have the Auto Sync Factor set to 30, and a DVD Cache of 2048 KB. However, DvPlayer is simply faster than MPlayer (especially with our current drivers), so I use DvPlayer.

Here are the command-line options I use for MUI-MPlayer, but they will probably work with plain old MPlayer too:
mplayer -gui 1 -vo cgx_wpa -ao ahi_dev "file"

I have a note that I was using -autosync 30 -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all but I moved them to the conf/config file.

[gerograph]

O.k. works now, obviously slow, because "Standard Mplayer" supports only SDL.