[Wolves] Movie Players

[Peter Cannon]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 09:50, Lee Jordan wrote:
> If you want to get to the source of the problem. Disable aRts in the KDE
> Control Centre, try Mplayer again and see if aRts had a hold of your
> soundcard. Without aRts running the Open Source Sound System or ALSA should
> in theroy kick in. If that doesn't work fire up a Konsole (x-term, terminal,
> insert-your-fav-term-here) and type
Hm
I presume you mean the sound icon which when I select it says unable to
get sound card information so am unable to use your "disable"
suggestion, but if I go system settings - soundcard detection I get

Vendor: ESS Technology
MODEL: ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator
Module: Maestro3

Under the arTs control tool I get a pretty bar equalizer which moves up
and down when playing (and hearing) sound other than Mplayer.

> 
> mplayer <your-file-here>
> 
> If you can read the messages that are given you might see /dev/null or
> /dev/dsp or something like that. If you see "Permission denied" then
> something is really holding on to your sound card. Again try this with aRts
> and with out. if you can't read the messages type the following on one line
> 
> mplayer file.mp3 >> error.log && cat error.log | more
> 
> this should log the output messages to a file called error.log in your
> current directory (pwd will tell you where you are). You will have to stop
> the file playing if you want to immediatly read the error file by hitting
> the escape key as you are trying to view video.
> 
> If aRts is to blame then set the time out of idle-ness for aRts in the KDE
> Control Centre, in theory this says to aRts that no sound has been played
> for a few seconds so sleep for a bit, thus giving other apps a chance to
> steal the soundcard. If it's something else then try running mplayer as
> root, if not look on google to see if anyone else has had the same issue.

This is the output I get if I run mplayer /home/peter/movies/sales.avi
from a terminal-command.

It says error opening video out put the film plays fine.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 734.0 MHz
(Family: 6, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with
--disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/peter/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/peter/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/home/peter/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 157 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/peter/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Syntax error in font desc: name 'File generated for koi8-r encoding
using `Arial Regular' face (/mnt/DOS_C/winnt/Fonts/arial.ttf), ppem=24
by Nick Kurshev nickols_k at mail.ru'

Can't load font bitmap: arpi_osd_a.raw
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/peter/.mplayer/input.conf: No such
file or directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds

Playing /home/peter/movies/sales.avi
Cache fill:  3.52% (294912 bytes)    AVI file format detected.
Detected NON-INTERLEAVED AVI file format.
VIDEO:  [IV50]  320x240  24bpp  30.003 fps  856.9 kbps (104.6 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, 8 bit (0x8), ratio: 22050->22050 (176.4 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm:pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
display)
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

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Regards

Peter Cannon

peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk