[vox-tech] play DVD with mplayer

Hai Yi yihai2004 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 19:17:43 PDT 2008 

I removed everything related to mplayer and re-installed it from the
medibuntu, and this time it works!

Thanks to everyone!

Hai


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Matt Holland <mdholland at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Hai,
>
> How did you install mplayer?  If you used the Medibuntu repository, I
> would expect to see a lot more available video output devices (xv, x11,
> sdl, and gl, to name a few).  If that's not how you installed it, I
> would recommend trying that.  Go to http://www.medibuntu.org/ for
> instructions on setting up your apt sources to include the repository
> (again, if you haven't done so already).  Also, depending on how you
> upgraded, it's possible that your sources.list entry for the Medibuntu
> repository is still pointing to the Gutsy release.
>
> I'm not aware of any of the output devices in your list being usable for
> video playback in an X11 session.
>
> Matt
>
> Hai Yi wrote:
>> Hi, Matt:
>>
>> I didn't change any hardware when I upgraded ubuntu; I tried '-vo
>> sdl', it didn't work either; in the .mplayer/gui.conf, this might be
>> relevant line:
>> vo_driver = "xv"
>> (the config file is empty, I believe it's for the user's customization)
>>
>> I also tried this:
>> mplayer -vo help
>>
>> hai at zodiac:~/.mplayer$ mplayer -vo help
>> MPlayer dev-SVN-r27605-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
>> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6400  @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6,
>> Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
>> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>> Available video output drivers:
>>       fbdev   Framebuffer Device
>>       fbdev2  Framebuffer Device
>>       v4l2    V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
>>       cvidix  console VIDIX
>>       null    Null video output
>>       mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
>>       yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
>>       tga     Targa output
>>       pnm     PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
>>       md5sum  md5sum of each frame
>>
>> hopefully I've provided enough info and thank you for the answer!
>> Hai
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Matt Holland <mdholland at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> That's a video output driver problem, not a codec problem.  Did you
>>> change video cards around the same time you upgraded to Hardy?  Anyway,
>>> I would suspect that if you're getting the errors below, you can't play
>>> any video with mplayer.  Two things: try appending '-vo sdl' to your
>>> command line (and take a look at the section on the -vo flag in the
>>> mplayer man page for other options).  Also, maybe if you posted the
>>> contents of your ~/.mplayer/config file (if any exists).
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> Hai Yi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Troy:
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the suggestion. I've followed that link to have the
>>>> codec installed. however, I think it might be similar to those from
>>>> mplayer's official site. As a consequence, I still experience the same
>>>> error, I attached the error msg in here, hopefully someone can shed me
>>>> a light.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Hai
>>>>
>>>> hai at zodiac:~/Videos/wn0705981$ mplayer wn0705981.wmv
>>>>
>>>> MPlayer dev-SVN-r27605-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
>>>>
>>>> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6400  @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6,
>>>> Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
>>>>
>>>> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>>>>
>>>> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Playing wn0705981.wmv.
>>>>
>>>> ASF file format detected.
>>>>
>>>> [asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
>>>>
>>>> [asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
>>>>
>>>> VIDEO:  [WMV2]  720x540  24bpp  1000.000 fps  1752.3 kbps (213.9 kbyte/s)
>>>>
>>>> Clip info:
>>>>
>>>>  name: Wonder-AV
>>>>
>>>>  author:
>>>>
>>>>  copyright:
>>>>
>>>>  comments:
>>>>
>>>> Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> [fbdev2] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> VO: [v4l2] No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> vo_cvidix: No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v
>>>> option for details)!
>>>>
>>>> [cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [s3_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> [VO_SUB_VIDIX] Couldn't find working VIDIX driver.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Troy Arnold <troy-vox at zenux.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 01:22:51PM -0400, Hai Yi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you, Norm. The new command line seemed OK. However, I found that my
>>>>>> real problem is that I didn't import the needed codec. I am still
>>>>>> suffering from problems related to picking up the right codec file, but
>>>>>> that's another issue deserving a separated thread on its own.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> The easiest way to sort out your codecs is to add medibuntu to your package
>>>>> repositories and install the w32codecs package (or the w64codecs
>>>>> package if you have a 64bit install).
>>>>>
>>>>> See the repository HOWTO linked from the main medibuntu page at:
>>>>> http://www.medibuntu.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> -t
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