[SOLVED] Mplayer won't play video since recent current update

I had the same issue after the 21.04.2015 -current update: MPlayer wouldn't show videos. I recompiled it before and after today's (25.04.2015) update, and in both cases it works just fine. I didn't touch anything else. Vanilla -current here, no multilib.

/slackware/slackware-current/source/xap/MPlayer
/slackware/slackware64-current/source/xap/MPlayer

Best regards,
Philip

The bug still present on INTEL graphics cards.

AMD , no bugged , and nvidia im not tested.


Need recompile the package , bug no download the ffmpeg & mplayer .xz files.

Then the script , download new git sources ...the new TXZ , is generated on /tmp


slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware-current/source/xap/MPlayer/ (i cant put entirely url ...for spam fight , then put manually)


download the files except ffmpeg & mplayer .xz

put files in a folder , new terminal on the folder and exec de slackbuild , to generate new TXZ



Philip Lacroix is on the correct way.

Try the new one that's just been uploaded.

Originally Posted by volkerdi Try the new one that's just been uploaded.

sorry , but cant see a new MPlayer package.



http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...slackware/xap/

Originally Posted by USUARIONUEVO sorry , but cant see a new MPlayer package. http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...slackware/xap/

It may take a bit of time for all mirror sites to get the new updates.

Originally Posted by USUARIONUEVO sorry , but cant see a new MPlayer package. http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...slackware/xap/

That mirror is not up to date:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...slackware/xap/

MPlayer-20150425-i486-1


Tested , and works fine!

Thanks for the updates.

Yep, tested here and work fine

Thanks

Marked as solved.

Originally Posted by volkerdi Try the new one that's just been uploaded.

Thank you! I still have the issue described here (MPlayer freezes):

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg02285.html

MPlayer's output:

bash-4.3$ mplayer Video.webm 
MPlayer 20150425-4.9.2 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team

Playing Video.webm.
libavformat version 56.25.101 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (vp8), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (vorbis), -aid 0
VIDEO:  [VP80]  640x480  0bpp  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 encoder: google
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 56.26.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffvp8] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg VP8)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->352800)
Selected audio codec: [ffvorbis] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Vorbis)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12 
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12 
A:   0.2 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.194 ct:  0.000   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.

The machine on which I have this problem (up to date -current):

bash-4.3$ uname -a
Linux darkstar 3.18.11-smp #1 SMP Tue Apr 7 14:11:25 CDT 2015 i686 Intel(R) \
  Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: AMD/ATI [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] \
  RV570 [Radeon X1950 PRO] (rev 9a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device e190
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 24
	Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at a800 [size=256]
	Memory at ff8f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Expansion ROM at ff8c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
	Kernel modules: radeon

On the other hand, videos play just fine when using the x11 driver, though MPlayer still gives the same "DRI failure" error.

mplayer -vo x11 Video.webm

Philip

I tried rebuilding the previous 20150403 version, grabbed from a not yet up to date Polish mirror:

http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/...e/xap/MPlayer/

Blue-1.10.tar.bz2		25-Mar-2014 14:25 	217K	 
MPlayer-20150403.tar.xz		03-Apr-2015 20:15 	5.0M	 
MPlayer.SlackBuild		03-Apr-2015 22:47 	18K	 
cdio-includes.patch.gz		09-Mar-2015 21:05 	422 	 
ffmpeg-2.6.1.tar.xz		16-Mar-2015 20:43 	6.2M	 
include-samba-4.0.patch.gz	09-Mar-2015 21:07 	219 	 
slack-desc			05-Apr-2015 07:08 	1.1K

There's no "DRI failure" error anymore, but MPlayer still freezes. With the x11 driver it doesn't freeze, but then when I switch workspace (on Xfce) while the video is playing I see the latest frame previously shown by xscreensaver, instead of the desktop. I didn't check this with other window managers.

<edit> The mentioned xscreensaver frame doesn't show on workspaces with no open windows.

I can run MPlayer with no issues on another Pentium IV with a full and updated -current installation. I don't have access to the previously mentioned machine right now, but there is probably some package missing there, though not one of the new ones. As far as I'm concerned I consider the problem solved. Sorry for cluttering the thread.

Am sorry to report that some! bug continues even after the 4/25 update. Can play video just fine from command line (mplayer somevideo). However, using GUI does not work: video screen disappears, audio is, well, still audible.

The errors I could spot (from terminal) are:
1. Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
(I have libvdpau installed)
2. [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
(This is normal, I guess)

Since I have a perfectly good audio + video when starting it from an xterm, I assume none of the errors are critical for the GUI operation to fail. Any suggestions?

Added: After today's upgrades, I decided to give it a try and this time it worked. Maybe I chose the wrong video driver, don't know.