what is mplayer outputting to?
there are various options, you can see what options are compiled into
your system with:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mplayer -vo help
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5-20050130 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow
Available video output drivers:
xvmc XVideo Motion Compensation
xv X11/Xv
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
gl X11 (OpenGL)
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
svga SVGAlib
aa AAlib
vesa VESA VBE 2.0 video output
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
gif89a animated GIF output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame
you really want it to be using Xv if possible. you can usually tell by
running mplayer from the command line and watching the output.
you can force xv (if available) by running:
mplayer -vo xv [plus other options you usually use]
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:05:17 +1200
Douglas Royds wrote:
> ... then fails with:
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> "Too many video packets in the buffer"
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> Sound plays at full speed, but the picture runs slowly. The DVD in question
> is not encrypted, being one that I burnt myself (under OSX). It plays OK
> under OSX and WinXP.
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> I enabled DMA with:
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> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
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> This helped enormously, but didn't solve it completely. Sound slowly
> dropped out of synch, then the Too Many Video Packets error.
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> There should be plenty of horsepower - PIII 1150 with 128Mb RAM. I
> installed mplayer-586. It is a laptop, so I don't know whether NEC has
> strangled it somehow.
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