Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Alf, Alf writes: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 12:49:19 +0200 Alf wrote: > Further investigating the configuration also led to a solution for the higher > CPU load: > > SMPlayer seems not to evaluate my $HOME/.config/mpv/mpv.conf where I have > hardware accelleration enabled. > I now have set it

Bug#1026060: mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
James Addison writes: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 at 00:28, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> The way always screen for this type of thing is using the >> "elpa-git-timemachine" Emacs package > > That sounds like a nice feature integration. I worry that I might be > too many years into my vim usage to

Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-25 Thread Alf
On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 12:49:19 +0200 Alf wrote: Hi Nicholas But that's also not true - it now works as before after switching the settings under "General" -> "Video" -> "Output driver" from "vaapi" to "libmpv" - that's all! I only use smplayer because of the comfortable way to zap between

Bug#1026060: mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-24 Thread James Addison
On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 14:05, James Addison wrote: > > However: I do have problems playing an MP4 video file with the > 'default' video output driver selected. Maybe that is the same issue > with VAAPI.. or maybe something else. I'll spend some time to check, > I think that either/both of those

Bug#1026060: mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-24 Thread James Addison
On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 at 00:28, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > You're welcome! Also, yes, your hypothesis about DVB support being lost > when the Debian packages adapted to upstream's waf-to-meson change was > correct. The way always screen for this type of thing is using the >

Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-23 Thread Alf
Here for completeness (just in case you want to dig into smplayer's vaapi issue): $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-23 Thread Alf
Hi Nicholas and Thomas, I have to correct my comment about "smplayer" -> got it working, my fault! I probably choose the wrong wording when saying "What now does not work: smplayer". It stopped working at the same time when mpv was upgradet to v0.35.* and stopped working. Correct I should

Bug#1026060: mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi James, James Addison writes: > > Thanks, Nicholas! > You're welcome! Also, yes, your hypothesis about DVB support being lost when the Debian packages adapted to upstream's waf-to-meson change was correct. The way always screen for this type of thing is using the "elpa-git-timemachine"

Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Dear Thomas and Alf, Thank you for confirming that this fix for DVB support works as it should. Thomas, if you have a few minutes of free time, would you please review the rest of this email, and consider verifying whether or not mpv_0.35.1-4 introduces a regression in smplayer? I hypothesise

Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-20 Thread Thomas Viehweger
Hi, I can confirm that DVB playback  is now working again for me with mpv_0.35.1-4_amd64.deb. Thanks!

Bug#1026060: mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-20 Thread James Addison
Source: mpv Followup-For: Bug #1026060 X-Debbugs-Cc: s...@debian.org Thanks, Nicholas! Although I don't have a DVB device to test with locally, the fix makes sense to me, and I'm glad to read from Alf's report that it is working. Regards, James

Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-20 Thread Alf
Found detailled information on my hardware as I noted on first installation in Debian-Stretch: $ /opt/bin/mediaclient -e List of Media Hardware Devices device 0: [Sundtek MediaTV Pro (USB 2.0)] DVB-C, DVB-T,

Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-20 Thread Alf
Am 19.04.23 um 23:02 schrieb Nicholas D Steeves: Dear Alf and James, I agree that DVB support is important, and I just uploaded mpv_0.35.1-4 (to sid/unstable). That release will close this bug, but please test this it ASAP and confirm that it works with your DVB hardware. Yes, I know it might

Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-19 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Thomas, I didn't notice that you weren't in the CC list of the following email. Sorry about that, and I'm sending you a copy now. Please test 0.35.1-4 (in sid) as soon as you can! It's now been uploaded, and I don't have the hardware to confirm that DVB support didn't break upstream (highly

Bug#1026060: Bug: #1026060 -- mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-19 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Dear Alf and James, I agree that DVB support is important, and I just uploaded mpv_0.35.1-4 (to sid/unstable). That release will close this bug, but please test this it ASAP and confirm that it works with your DVB hardware. Yes, I know it might take a day to become available...sorry about that.

Bug#1026060: mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-18 Thread James Addison
Source: mpv Followup-For: Bug #1026060 X-Debbugs-Cc: patchesthomas@web.de, alf.debian...@gmx.de Hi, I haven't 100% confirmed this, but from some inspection it looks like DVB support may be disabled-by-default based on the meson options[1] in the source package for mpv. The upstream source

Bug#1026060: mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2023-04-18 Thread Alf
As Thomas Viehweger wrote, DVB support ist missing since upgrade to v 0.35.*. It can be clearly seen by executing mpv --list-protocols "dvb://" is no longer included. I searched all change.logs on Debian and also Upstream (https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases) and I could not find any

Bug#1026060: mpv: dvb playback does not work anymore

2022-12-13 Thread Thomas Viehweger
Package: mpv Version: 0.35.0-3 Severity: important mpv 'dvb://Das Erste HD' fails with No protocol handler found to open URL dvb://Das Erste HD The protocol is either unsupported, or was disabled at compile-time. With mpv-0.34.1-1+b5 this was working.