[SOLVED] Problem with media players

raju.mopidevi · 01-22-2009, 07:12 PM

hiii to every one,
i am using SUSE 11.0 KDE 4.0
i had installed Totem player, VLC media player from 1-click install avialable from SUSE download site (software.opensuse.org) and VLC site (www.videolan.org) respectively.
Now my problem is -----, when ever i tried to open video files ( they are *.avi format ) in any of those 2 players , the window of player opens, they play 1 or 2 seconds clip of movie and then disappears.
the same files are playing nice ...in WINDOWS XP..
but in SUSE they are just showing player window and disappearing !!

plzz help me !!

rylan76 · 01-23-2009, 05:13 AM

Do they actually start to play the video, or not?

It sounds as if both are instantly crashing / getting killed.

Have you tried starting them from the commandline and examining if you see any error reported there?

Also, have you tried MPlayer? IMO it is better than Totem or VLC for playing videos. It has an extremely complete codec pack, in 5 years of use I have very rarely been able to find a file it could not play (It does have difficulty consistently with some .FLV files though).

raju.mopidevi · 01-23-2009, 06:52 AM

yes... they starts playing, but within seconds of time ... player automatically closes.

plz tell me how to open in commandline , So that i can see error report if any ...

sycamorex · 01-23-2009, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raju.mopidevi

yes... they starts playing, but within seconds of time ... player automatically closes.

plz tell me how to open in commandline , So that i can see error report if any ...

you can issue the following commands:

Code:

 
vlc film.avi
mplayer film.avi

raju.mopidevi · 01-23-2009, 06:00 PM

i had tried above command

Code:

raju@linux-d6yt:~> vlc /home/raju/public_html/MVI_0894.AVI
VLC media player 0.9.8a Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.8a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--enable-gnomevfs' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-wxwidgets' '--disable-pda' '--disable-macosx' '--disable-qnx' '--enable-xosd' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-visual' '--disable-goom' '--enable-slp' '--enable-lirc' '--disable-joystick' '--disable-corba' '--enable-dvdread' '--enable-dvdnav' '--disable-dshow' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-satellite' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-mod' '--enable-libcdio' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-cddax' '--enable-libcddb' '--enable-x11' '--enable-xvideo' '--enable-glx' '--enable-fb' '--enable-mga' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-fribidi' '--disable-svg' '--disable-directx' '--disable-wingdi' '--disable-glide' '--enable-aa' '--enable-caca' '--enable-oss' '--disable-esd' '--enable-arts' '--enable-waveout' '--disable-coreaudio' '--disable-hd1000a' '--disable-hd1000v' '--enable-mad' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--enable-faad' '--enable-a52' '--enable-dca' '--enable-flac' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-tremor' '--enable-speex' '--disable-tarkin' '--enable-theora' '--enable-cmml' '--enable-utf8' '--enable-pth' '--disable-st' '--disable-gprof' '--disable-cprof' '--disable-testsuite' '--enable-optimizations' '--disable-altivec' '--disable-debug' '--enable-release' '--enable-sout' '--with-ffmpeg-faac' '--disable-galaktos' '--enable-httpd' '--disable-jack' '--enable-mozilla' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-real' '--enable-realrtsp' '--enable-live555' '--with-live555-tree=/usr/lib/live' '--enable-fast-install' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-dvb' '--enable-lua' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-asademux' '--enable-libproxy' '--enable-libass' '--enable-kate' '--enable-smb'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 140.19 failed with error code11:
 BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  140 (XVideo)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  91
  Current serial number in output stream:  92
raju@linux-d6yt:~>

as shown above ..., i got error report
this time also the player window just opened , and then automatically closed .

rylan76 · 01-26-2009, 03:09 AM

Do you know if your xserver provides XV (x video) services?

I don't know how to check if you do have this... I do know xine has a "xine-check" script that displays this. It seems as if VLC is looking for functionality that is not present in your system. Can you try a different output mode?

I. e. in mplayer, you can start it with the -vo (video output) switch. To use XV, for example:

mplayer -vo xv

I. e. try something else - I think mplayer also accepts

mplayer -vo xshm

etc... Maybe VLC has different output plugins / modes as well? Maybe some other mode will work and not crash instantly in your setup.

raju.mopidevi · 03-13-2010, 06:14 AM

sorry i forgot to post this, I solved this by setting output as x11
mplayer -vo x11
similarly for vlc also