Howto: Build the svn MPlayer under the latest release version of Ubuntu

[andrew.46]

Good to hear . My ~/.mplayer/config tends to be a little bare, has the following at the moment (for my slackware, vdpau-powered version):

# Andrew's choices for MPlayer defaults!

# I prefer mpg123 playback for all mp3 files:
#--------------
[extension.mp3]
profile-desc="profile for .mp3 files"
ac=mpg123
#--------------

# Seems to work better for .mov files:
#--------------
[extension.mov]
demuxer=mov
#--------------

# Try FFmpeg/libavcodec codecs first, they usually work best:
#--------------
afm=ffmpeg
vfm=ffmpeg
#--------------


# If I use vdpau I prefer these video codecs:
#--------------
[vo.vdpau]
vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau,
#--------------

Any other settings I add from the commandline. The mpg123 setting is set to become the default soon enough when the default mp3lib is finally removed.

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Hmmm...problems with mplayer.

Resizing the window will cause the picture/playback to seize up, unrecoverable and window either closes or has to be closed.

Open a video file picture/playback will seize after a few frames, requires right arrow to get it going again

If video playback is paused for @ 5 minutes, picture/playback seizes, cannot be recovered.

(this happens with media files and dvb output)

Xubuntu 12.04
NVidia Ion proprietary drivers
No Compositor

Not had this before on previous installations (although haven't always compiled, just used the repo)

Any suggestions welcome. May try reverting to repo version?

[andrew.46]

Which -vo are you using? Certainly might be worthwhile trying a different one:

andrew@skamandros~$ mplayer -vo help
MPlayer SVN-r34885-4.7.0 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Available video output drivers:
	vdpau	VDPAU with X11
	xv	X11/Xv
	gl_nosw	OpenGL no software rendering
	x11	X11 ( XImage/Shm )
	xover	General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
	sdl	SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
	gl	OpenGL
	gl2	X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
	dga	DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
	fbdev	Framebuffer Device
	fbdev2	Framebuffer Device
	svga	SVGAlib
	matrixview	MatrixView (OpenGL)
	aa	AAlib
	caca	libcaca
	v4l2	V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
	xvidix	X11 (VIDIX)
	cvidix	console VIDIX
	null	Null video output
	mpegpes	MPEG-PES to DVB card
	yuv4mpeg	yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
	png	PNG file
	jpeg	JPEG file
	gif89a	animated GIF output
	tga	Targa output
	pnm	PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
	md5sum	md5sum of each frame
	mng	MNG file

and it certainly would not hurt to try the repository MPlayer, but my suspicions lie with your video output device....

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Am in the wrong place at present, but from memory I have:

vo=vdpau,xv,gl

in my config file. Same as with 11.10. I'll have a play around later.

EDIT (didn't have any vo configured in mplayer config)

Tried various -vo settings, none made any difference. Uninstalled compiled version, installed from repo, still no change.

vlc and parole are fine.

Video driver settings?

[andrew.46]

If you run vdpau best to specify the -vc as well, an example a couple of posts up (in my ~/.mplayer/config. Other than this I am not sure what the problem could be I'm afaraid .

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Here are some errors when it seizes and is restarted using right arrow. These come at startup of film, and from moving the window.

mplayer A.Movie.mkv
MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Loading extension-related profile 'extension.mkv'
Loading extension-related profile 'vo.vdpau'

Playing A.Movie.mkv.
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   

libavformat version 53.21.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.19.0
libavformat file format detected.
[matroska,webm @ 0x10c3d80]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0
[lavf] stream 2: subtitle (text), -sid 0
VIDEO:  [H264]  1280x720  0bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 title: A.Movie.mkv
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
Forced video codec: ffwmv3vdpau
Forced video codec: ffvc1vdpau
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 53.35.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.32.2
Selected video codec: [ffh264vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 1280x720 => 1280x720 H.264 VDPAU acceleration 
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
A:  17.4 V:  17.4 A-V: -0.073 ct:  0.341   0/  0  0% 33%  2.8% 8 0 92% 
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]Missing reference picture
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]Missing reference picture
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]Missing reference picture
A:  28.1 V:  27.9 A-V:  0.160 ct:  0.020   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 83% 
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]Missing reference picture
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]Missing reference picture
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]Missing reference picture
A:  28.1 V:  28.0 A-V:  0.148 ct:  0.024   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 83% 
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]mmco: unref short failure
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]mmco: unref short failure
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]mmco: unref short failure
[h264_vdpau @ 0x5eb06a0]mmco: unref short failure
A:  32.4 V:  32.4 A-V:  0.001 ct:  0.170   0/  0  0%  8%  3.1% 0 0 81% 

Exiting... (Quit)

Doesn't seem to matter which -vo I use, I get the same behaviour. Thanks for you help Andrew

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Found the problem:

ao=alsa

fix one thing, break another

Recommended fix to compile with "--enable-pulse" ???

[andrew.46]

That is a little odd, but you should have access to pulse as an ao following this guide so no need to recompile. For most of the libraries which MPlayer the --enable xxxxx option is not usually needed or indeed recommended.

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Agreed there is no need to compile for pulse. .mplayer/config now pared right back to:

lirc=no
vf=yadif

and all is well

[cariboo]

Closed, by request.