Playing movies not working properly
Yesterday I tried to watch a big .avi movie (1.4GB) for the first time on my laptop. I never noticed any problems when I watched small movies such as those of comparable size on Youtube. But with the movie of yesterday I noticed that my sound is lacking and hitching, especially when there is a lot of action going on.
Strange enough this problem occurs with all media players (Mplayer, VLC, banshee, etc). The specs of my computer are good enough for sure. (Playing movies with my laptop and Windows was never a problem.) And I always thought that I installed all desired software (codes, opengl, videodrivers, etc). Does anyone have a idea what my problem is? Regards, Bob |
Throughput. Let's stick with mplayer.
Try mplayer -vo help That lists all the video formats possible on your box - xvid, opengl, sdl etc.). My laptop (ATI card) wouldn't cut the mustard on anything but sdl. It defaults to xvid, iirc. Next, mplayer -ao help and do the same for audio. |
Ive listed the output below. But what do you want me to do with it?
MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Available video output drivers: xmga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay in X11 window (using /dev/mga_vid) mga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay (/dev/mga_vid) tdfxfb 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3/Voodoo5 3dfx 3dfx (/dev/3dfx) xv X11/Xv vdpau VDPAU with X11 x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers gl X11 (OpenGL) gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 ) sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!) fbdev Framebuffer Device fbdev2 Framebuffer Device svga SVGAlib caca libcaca v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output directfb Direct Framebuffer Device dfbmga DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 xvidix X11 (VIDIX) cvidix console VIDIX null Null video output xvmc XVideo Motion Compensation 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 MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Available audio output drivers: oss OSS/ioctl audio output alsa ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output esd EsounD audio output pulse PulseAudio audio output jack JACK audio output nas NAS audio output sdl SDLlib audio output openal OpenAL audio output mpegpes DVB audio output v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Audio Decoder output null Null audio output pcm RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output |
I just worked through them. For video, try x11, sdl, opengl, and the one mayching your video card. For audio, I'd suggest alsa sdl, pulse and jack as your first efforts. The line goes
mplayer -vo sdl -ao jack <file> You can make your choice permanent in a config file. READ the man page. |
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