Noise when running MPlayer under openSuSE 10.3

Basel · 09-24-2007, 12:53 PM

I just installed openSuSE 10.3 CR1 and MPlayer-1.0rc1try3-1.pm.3.i586 but there is a lot of noise when playing video files. Here is the output from running mplayer from the console:

Code:

# mplayer Bleach_135_DB.avi
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can'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 Bleach_135_DB.avi.
AVI file format detected.
AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (2 superindexchunks).
VIDEO:  [XVID]  640x480  12bpp  23.976 fps  710.2 kbps (86.7 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: Windows Movie Maker 2.1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 48 bits!
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 87 bits!
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 26 bits!
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 71 bits!
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 17 bits!
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 7 bits!
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 60 bits!4   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 53 bits!3   4/  4 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 54 bits!1   6/  6 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 91 bits!3   9/  9 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 49 bits!8  10/ 10 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 56 bits!2  11/ 11 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 59 bits!6  12/ 12 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
A:   0.7 V:   0.5 A-V:  0.110 ct:  0.054  14/ 14 12%  1%  0.9% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)

wauwha · 09-25-2007, 01:35 AM

Does this happen with every file and every codec?

Basel · 09-25-2007, 02:07 AM

It happens with different mpeg and mp4 files, did not try other formats. I don't get the noise when I run the same files using the xine engine.

KeesBakker · 10-03-2007, 05:05 AM

FYI

This happens to me too. I just installed openSUSE 10.3 RC1 a few days ago, added the packman repository, installed MPlayer. The sound is not good (that's an understandment).

By default it uses the mp3lib audio codec for MP3. And indeed the sound is very disturbed. Selecting another codec, such as mp3acm, does not have that problem.
Looking on the web it shows that this may be an old problem as can be seen in an Ubuntu forum from 2006, thread is titled: "Mplayer (and mencoder) 1.0 RC1 packaged for edgy".

The strange thing is that this now shows up on openSUSE 10.3. I don't have a openSUSE 10.2 handy right now, but maybe I should revive my previous root filesystem, and try to update MPlayer on that. Notice that packman has the same version MPlayer for 10.2 too.

buzzz · 10-05-2007, 03:53 PM

It,s the same with the kmplayer plugin too.

jumpingjack · 10-07-2007, 04:56 PM

I have the same problem, but i solved it on Preferences/Codecs & demuxer and selecting FFMpeg/libavcodec for "Audio codec Family"

alfers1985 · 10-09-2007, 08:50 PM

I was having a similar problem getting a MPEG4 video to play its Mp3 audio. If you are looking for a terminal window solution, I used the following.

Code:

mplayer -ac ffmp3 (file path)

If the ffmp3 codec doesn't work for you type "mplayper -ac help" for a full list of codecs.

KeesBakker · 10-11-2007, 03:45 PM

Just to let you know, the problem is solved in MPlayer-1.0rc2-1.pm.1

The workarounds were nice, but this is just better :-)