[this is a re-send; my mail system was broken when I sent this yesterday]
Can any of the folks on this list who are more knowledgable than me [1] about video give me some recommendations as to what I can do to play this video: http://themis.asu.edu/valles_video on my home FC4 box? I get audio, but all I see for video is a black window. I'm using mplayer, because this seems to work better than totem. Maybe my home system is too wimpy to play this. "mplayer -framedrop" doesn't help. Yes, it is a large video. [update: my 3GHz work machine seems to be able to play this, but my 700MHz home machine does not] BTW, I probably won't get to try any recommendations until tonight. Random system info attached. Thanks, --kevin [1] Which could be anybody. -- "You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot." -- Kim Stanley Robinson
[I am using a generic LCD monitor, if this matters] $ uname -s -r Linux 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 706.371 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 1396.73 $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 645308 kB MemFree: 24140 kB Buffers: 36524 kB Cached: 301812 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 420612 kB Inactive: 162812 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 645308 kB LowFree: 24140 kB SwapTotal: 1024088 kB SwapFree: 1023164 kB Dirty: 44 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 344260 kB Slab: 23928 kB CommitLimit: 1346740 kB Committed_AS: 652404 kB PageTables: 4832 kB VmallocTotal: 376824 kB VmallocUsed: 3808 kB VmallocChunk: 372844 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB $ grep -i boardname /etc/X11/xorg.conf BoardName "ATI Mach64" $ cat /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq 1024 $ mplayer -v valles3d.mpg Using GNU internationalization Original domain: messages Original dirname: /usr/share/locale Current domain: mplayer Current dirname: /usr/share/locale MPlayer 1.0pre7-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 CommandLine: '-v' 'valles3d.mpg' init_freetype get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/kdc/.mplayer/font/font.desc' font: can't open file: /home/kdc/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz). get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/kdc/.mplayer/input.conf' Can't open input config file /home/kdc/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... 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. get_path('valles3d.mpg.conf') -> '/home/kdc/.mplayer/valles3d.mpg.conf' Playing valles3d.mpg. [file] File size is 56051716 bytes STREAM: [file] valles3d.mpg STREAM: Description: File STREAM: Author: Albeu STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi) Checking for YUV4MPEG2 ASF_check: not ASF guid! Checking for Nullsoft Streaming Video Checking for NuppelVideo Checking for REAL Checking for SMJPEG Searching demuxer type for filename valles3d.mpg ext: .mpg Checking for MOV Checking for VIVO header block 1 size: 0 AVS: avs_check_file - attempting to open file valles3d.mpg AVS: File is too big, aborting... Checking for PVA Checking for MPEG-TS... TRIED UP TO POSITION 101510, FOUND 47, packet_size= 0, SEEMS A TS? 0 Checking for LMLM4 Stream Format Invalid packet in LMLM4 stream: ch=0 size=553648376 LMLM4 Stream Format not found system stream synced at 0xB (0)! ==> Found video stream: 0 ==> Found audio stream: 0 MPEG Stream reached EOF ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video) MPEG-PS file format detected. Searching for sequence header... OK! VIDEO: MPEG1 960x540 (aspect 12) 30.000 fps 1700.0 kbps (212.5 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000001 size:960x540 fps:30.00 ftime:=0.0333 get_path('sub/') -> '/home/kdc/.mplayer/sub/' get_path('default.sub') -> '/home/kdc/.mplayer/default.sub' ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 dec_audio: Allocating 4608 + 65536 = 70144 bytes for output buffer. mp3lib: made decode tables with MMX optimization mp3lib: using 3DNow!Ex optimized decore! MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done MPEG 1.0, Layer II, 44100 Hz 224 kbit Stereo, BPF: 731 Channels: 2, copyright: No, original: No, CRC: No, emphasis: 0 AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/15.87% (ratio: 28000->176400) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== X11 opening display: :0.0 vo: X11 color mask: FFFFFF (R:FF0000 G:FF00 B:FF) vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display) [x11] Detected wm supports NetWM. [x11] Detected wm supports FULLSCREEN state. [x11] Detected wm supports ABOVE state. [x11] Detected wm supports BELOW state. [x11] Current fstype setting honours FULLSCREEN ABOVE BELOW X atoms Disabling DPMS DPMSDisable stat: 1 vo_xvmc: X-Video extension 2.2 vo_xvmc: No X-Video MotionCompensation Extension on :0.0 [xv common] Drawing colorkey manually. [xv common] Using colorkey from Xv (0x030201). ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 960 x 540 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES) Trying filter chain: vo Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling) Trying filter chain: scale vo The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... [libaf] Adding filter dummy [dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le ao2: 44100 Hz 2 chans s16le audio_setup: using '/dev/dsp' dsp device audio_setup: using '/dev/mixer' mixer device audio_setup: using 'pcm' mixer device audio_setup: sample format: s16le (requested: s16le) audio_setup: using 2 channels (requested: 2) audio_setup: using 44100 Hz samplerate (requested: 44100) audio_setup: frags: 8/8 (8192 bytes/frag) free: 65536 AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) AO: Description: OSS/ioctl audio output AO: Author: A'rpi Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... [dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le [dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 960 x 540 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) Trying filter chain: vo VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO Config (960x540->960x720,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659) VO: [xv] 960x540 => 960x720 Planar YV12 VO: Description: X11/Xv VO: Author: Gerd Knorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others Xvideo image format: 0x32595559 (YUY2) packed Xvideo image format: 0x59565955 (UYVY) packed Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar using Xvideo port 61 for hw scaling [xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 960 dh: 768 *** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 960x544x12bpp YUV planar, 783360 bytes [xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 960 dh: 768 *** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 960x544x12bpp YUV planar, 783360 bytes *** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 960x544x12bpp YUV planar, 783360 bytes Uninit audio filters...-0.004 ct: 0.046 100/100 32% 13% 2.4% 7 0 [libaf] Removing filter dummy uninit audio: mp3lib uninit video: libmpeg2 Successfully enabled DPMS vo: uninit ... Exiting... (Quit)