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

Philip Lacroix · 04-25-2015, 05:56 AM

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

USUARIONUEVO · 04-25-2015, 05:44 PM

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.

volkerdi · 04-25-2015, 06:58 PM

Try the new one that's just been uploaded.

USUARIONUEVO · 04-25-2015, 07:23 PM

Quote:

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/

hitest · 04-25-2015, 07:28 PM

Quote:

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.

mats_b_tegner · 04-25-2015, 07:33 PM

Quote:

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/

USUARIONUEVO · 04-25-2015, 07:58 PM

MPlayer-20150425-i486-1

Tested , and works fine!

Thanks for the updates.

willysr · 04-25-2015, 08:43 PM

Yep, tested here and work fine

Thanks

Stephen Morgan · 04-25-2015, 11:52 PM

Marked as solved.

Philip Lacroix · 04-27-2015, 06:20 AM

Quote:

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:

Code:

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):

Code:

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

Code:

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.

Code:

mplayer -vo x11 Video.webm

Philip

Philip Lacroix · 04-27-2015, 08:55 AM

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/

Code:

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.

Philip Lacroix · 04-28-2015, 10:56 AM

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.

arsivci0 · 05-03-2015, 03:37 PM

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.