Can't play video in SMplayer but Mplayer works fine

[Tim Kornhammar]

Binary package hint: smplayer

Dist: Ubuntu
Release: 8.04b
Package: SMplayer
Version: 0.6.0rc2 (SVN834)

The playback never starts. Error output is as in the attached file.

[Vincent Tschanz (fogia)]

Same probleme here on a fresh install of Hardy.

output :

Debug: Core::startMplayer: command: '/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo xv -ao pulse -zoom -nokeepaspect -framedrop -dr -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 50331662 -colorkey 0x020202 -monitoraspect 1.6 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -cache 1000 -osdlevel 0 -idx -vf-add screenshot -channels 2 -af scaletempo -softvol -softvol-max 110 /home/nevada/Bureau/Mamoth/Clips/Birds.mov'
Debug: MplayerLayer::playingStarted
Debug: BaseGui::calculateDiff: diff_size: 0, 0
Debug: BaseGui::calculateDiff: diff_size set to: 0, 125
Debug: MplayerProcess::init_rx
Debug: Playlist::setModified: 0
Debug: Playlist::addFiles
Debug: Playlist::addItem: '/home/nevada/Bureau/Mamoth/Clips/Birds.mov'
Debug: name: 'Birds.mov'
Debug: * latest_dir: ''
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team'
Debug: MplayerVersion::mplayerVersion: MPlayer version found: 1.0rc2
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: MPlayer SVN: 24722
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 440 @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 22, Stepping: 1)'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Compiled with runtime CPU detection.'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'mplayer: could not connect to socket'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'mplayer: No such file or directory'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: ''
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Playing /home/nevada/Bureau/Mamoth/Clips/Birds.mov.'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: ''
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) '
Debug: Core::displayMessage
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Quicktime/MOV file format detected.'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_AUDIO_ID=0'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: ID_AUDIO_ID: 0
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 0'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_VIDEO_ID=1'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '[mov] Video stream found, -vid 1'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'VIDEO: [SVQ3] 300x240 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_FILENAME=/home/nevada/Bureau/Mamoth/Clips/Birds.mov'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_DEMUXER=mov'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=SVQ3'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=300'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: md.video_width set to 300
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=240'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: md.video_height set to 240
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: md.video_aspect set to 1.250000
Debug: MplayerProcess::pars...

[rvm4000 (rvm4000)]

MPlayer 1.0rc2 doesn't have the scaletempo filter.

Disable the option "High speed playback without altering pitch" in Preferences->General->Audio.

[rvm4000 (rvm4000)]

The problem of Tim Kornhammar seems to be different:

Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.'

It seems xv doesn't work for you. Use x11 (or gl/gl2) instead.

[Vincent Tschanz (fogia)]

>MPlayer 1.0rc2 doesn't have the scaletempo filter.
>
>Disable the option "High speed playback without altering pitch" in Preferences->General->Audio.

Thank you rvm, may I report this bug to the smplayer package or Mplayer? (now playing video works, but If I can't use scaletempo it's still a bug)

[rvm4000 (rvm4000)]

I don't know if this is a bug.

The version of mplayer included in ubuntu just simply doesn't have the scaletempo filter, it was added some weeks after 1.0rc2 was released.

On the other hand smplayer is ready to use that filter (but I think it won't try to use it by default). I think it's not a bug to be ready for new features. Also the help in the preferences dialog already states that that option requires at least mplayer dev-SVN-r24924.

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Perhaps we could see about updating mplayer in intrepid.

[affytaffy (aaronfu)]

I changed the audio option to ALSA -- pulseaudio gives me massive troubles in Hardy.