Tom wrote:
> As you suggested, I started freevo like so:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tomh]$ cd freevo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tomh]$ ./freevo -fs
>
> Freevo tried to start. The screen went mostly blank (black), with some
> stray gibberish in the middle of the screen. Apparently the system
> locked up (I couldn't see anything else when I pressed Alt-Tab).
Strange. It should start a new X session.
> After rebooting, I added the following line to
> /etc/freevo/local_conf.py:
> DEBUG=1
>
> I ran freevo as above with the same result. I rebooted, and looked for
> the file /var/log/freevo/main-[uid], and found that there is no freevo
> directory in /var/log.
Ah, then the log messages are in /tmp/freevo. You should create the
directory. And you should create /var/cache/freevo.
> I scrolled thru the window, and saw the line which shows how mplayer is
> being run:
>
> /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -screenw 800
> -screenh 600 -fs -slave -ao oss:/dev/dsp -cache 5000 -v -vo
> xv,sdl,x11,"/home/tomh/DVArchive/Local_Guide/Star Trek - Enterprise -
> Impulse.mpg", poll=-1
>
> If I enter that command directly in the command window, I get the
> following error messages:
> File not found: '/home/tomh/DVArchive/Local_Guide/Star Trek - Enterprise
> - Impulse.mpg,'
> vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..
No comma between x11, and "home..."?
> I removed the comma from in front of the 'poll=-1' and I get the same
> thing that I get when I try playing the video from within Freevo; ie,
> the blank screen with audio. Removing the 'poll=-1' makes no
> difference.
the ', poll=-1' is Freevo internal stuff, mplayer doesn't know about
this.
> Systematically removing parameters results in the following:
> removing 'poll=-1' : no difference
> removing '-v' : no difference
> removing '-vo xv,sdl,x11' : video plays
>
> Hmmm... something must be wrong with the -vo switch. I changed it to
> 'vo x11' and the video plays just fine.
vo xv doesn't work? That's bad. What card do you have?
> Playing around the parameters a bit more, I find that the video plays
> acceptably when I enter the command like so:
> /usr/bin/mplayer -zoom "/home/tomh/DVArchive/Local_Guide/Star Trek -
> Enterprise - Impulse.mpg"
>
> So.... how do I get freevo to issue the mplayer command like I do in the
> command window? I've changed the MPLAYER_ARGS_DEF line to be:
> MPLAYER_ARGS_DEF = (('-ac mad, -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100
> -screenw 1024 -screenh 768 -zoom -vo xv,x11,'))
>
> Which results in the freevo-issued mplayer command:
> /usr/bin/mplayer -ac mad, -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -screenw 1024
> -screenh 768 -zoom -vo xv,x11, -slave -ao oss:/dev/dsp -cache 5000 -v
> -vo xv,sdl,x11,"/home/tomh/DVArchive/Local_Guide/Star Trek - Enterprise
> - Impulse.mpg" , poll=-1
>
> I want to override the -vo parameter, but apparently I can't. Is it
> possible?
You can set MPLAYER_VO_DEV to set the vo device. Default is
xv,sdl,x11.
Dischi
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