From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 12 18:58:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D31106566C for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:58:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC188FC14 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:58:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3CIwUCO076331; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:58:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 37B4FBA8E; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:58:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:58:30 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Manish Jain Message-ID: <20090412185830.GA43909@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <49E05C71.5000403@gmail.com> <18912.33214.985656.315991@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <49E1D1DC.6000909@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49E1D1DC.6000909@gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Erik Gustafson , Robert Huff , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MPlayer experiment not working out well X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:58:33 -0000 --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:04:52PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: >=20 > The mplayer installation went pretty smoothly - no problems with that.=20 > And the gui is more than acceptable - I don't need the gnome-mplayer=20 > add-on. But the application has failed to play any file/CD/DVD for me so= =20 > far. The typical complaint for unencrypted vob files/iso-images is 'Too= =20 > many packets in the buffer', whereas for encrypted DVD's the application= =20 > produces garbage. (Please note it is willing to take dvd://1 on the=20 > commandline but not dvdnav://1, even though libdvd[nav/read/css] are all= =20 > installed on my system). My DVD device in mplayer is /dev/dvd=20 > (permissions 644), which is a symlink to /dev/acd0 (permissions 444). I'm pretty sure that you need write access to the (real) DVD device as well. A good way to do that would be to create a group named e.g. cdrom, and add yourself to that group. Next you need to set the following in /etc/devfs.conf:=20 own acd0 root:cdrom perm acd0 0660 link acd0 cdrom link acd0 dvd =20 > For .dat files copies straight from CD's, the playback seems to occur at= =20 > the rate of one frame per annum. On more than a couple of occasions, I=20 > remember getting some warning message to the effect 'gl missing : be=20 > prepared for a severe performance penalty'. What video output are you using? If supported by you graphics card driver, use the xv video device (vo=3Dxv in ~/.mplayer/config). =20 > Needless to say, my spirits are dampened after all the initial=20 > enthusiasm and effort. Maybe somebody can point out what might be wrong= =20 > with my setup. Following is the output of my 'make showconfig' in=20 > /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer : > > =3D=3D=3D> The following configuration options are available for=20 The config looks OK. > In mplayer's Preferences/codecs, I am using the DirectShow codecs. Could= =20 > that be a problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Are those the binary-only windows codecs? I've always run mplayer with "none" in those preferences. Works fine here. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkniOdYACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWKcQCgqA4ZHykPUNE3K7p6M4e3o8AG 99AAoIHWfh7pU28oFiCFeAlJ6ujl1bVu =bICG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI--