[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:0x1001 size:960x540 fps:30.00 ftime:=0.0333
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/kdc/.mplayer/sub/'
get_path('default.sub') -> '/home/kdc/.mplayer/default.
