[SOLVED] Mplayer video not intiating, it is giving fatal error

raju.mopidevi · 11-24-2009, 05:57 PM

I am using openSuSE 11.0, KDE 3.5.

My Mplayer is showing the fatal error. It is playing only audio of that movie file. video is stopped by showing error messages.

two error messages coming. I had uploaded snapshot images of that error message windows.

colucix · 11-24-2009, 07:56 PM

Does this happen just for one video? It looks like it couldn't find the needed video codec. Try to launch mplayer from a terminal: it should be more explicit in the error message:

Code:

mplayer -identify name_of_video_file

if this is not enough to retrieve a good indication of the problem, try to add the -v option.

raju.mopidevi · 11-25-2009, 08:18 AM

I had launched mplayer from terminal, then i had got the following error.

Quote:

raju@linux-snzv:/windows/D/videos/cricket> mplayer -identify cricket.wmv
MPlayer dev-SVN-r29796-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.0 (i686)-Packman (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer TeamCan't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing cricket.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
ID_VIDEO_ID=2
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [WMV1] 320x240 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
title:
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=title
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=
author:
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME1=author
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE1=
copyright:
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME2=copyright
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE2=
comments:
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME3=comments
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE3=
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=4
ID_FILENAME=cricket.wmv
ID_DEMUXER=asf
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=WMV1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=320
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=240
ID_VIDEO_FPS=1000.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=353
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=57.00
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
[vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffwmv1] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WMV1/WMV7)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffwmv1
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 80.0 kbit/5.67% (ratio: 10003->176400)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=80024
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffwmav2
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 1 0

The above "X11 error" is continued till the mplayer is closed.
I had tried for every type of file i.e. avi,wmv,vob,flv. ... etc.

colucix · 11-25-2009, 10:08 AM

I see two errors in the mplayer output, the first being:

Code:

[vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1

On my system - mounting a NVIDIA video card - the shared library libvdpau.so.1 is provided by the NVIDIA proprietary driver I had installed. However there is a package named libvdpau1 provided by the Packman repository, which should suit your needs. Try to install it and re-run mplayer again.

Regarding the "BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)" error this can be due to the missing library above and/or to a badly configured video driver and/or (simply) to insufficient memory of your video card.

You can try to skip this problem, by specifying a video output driver different from the default (don't confuse video output driver with your video card driver: I'm taking about a facility of mplayer here). You can see a list of the available video output drivers by issuing the following command (without any stream file as argument):

Code:

mplayer -vo help

then pick up one of them and re-run the mplayer command using the -vo option with the name of the chosen driver. For example a good start should be:

Code:

mplayer -vo x11 cricket.wmv

See section "VIDEO OUTPUT DRIVERS (MPLAYER ONLY)" in man mplayer for more detailed information about the available video output drivers. Feel free to post the terminal output again, until you solve the problem. Some detailed info about your video card and its driver should be useful, too. Cheers!

raju.mopidevi · 11-25-2009, 05:10 PM

you are correct Mr.Colucix. That library was missed, after installing that library videos are playing nicely.

Now I was able to play videos using Mplayer.

If i run through terminal, then it is playing, otherwise the error messages displayed in first message is coming again. May be i have to configure Mplayer using GUI options. I'll check it.

Thank you for the help.
My classmates uses windows. I had distributed openSUSE to most of my classmates. Previously if they want to play videos, they used to go Windows. Now i'll configure all of my friends systems.

so that they can watch video here itself.

Quote:

I like openSource products.

colucix · 11-27-2009, 04:05 PM

Hi Raju, you're welcome!

Quote:

Originally Posted by raju.mopidevi

My classmates uses windows. I had distributed openSUSE to most of my classmates. Previously if they want to play videos, they used to go Windows. Now i'll configure all of my friends systems.

so that they can watch video here itself.

Really nice! Your efforts are a little but great step toward a better world. Keep it up!