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Several small changes (like driver selection).
author atmosfear
date Mon, 04 Jun 2001 00:27:55 +0000
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1 Known bugs:
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2 ~~~~~~~~~~~
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4 Special system/cpu-specific bugs/problems:
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5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6 1. SIGILL (signal 4) in draw_frame, on P3 (mostly with 2.2.x kernels):
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7 Problem: movups is crashing in libvo/fastmemcpy.h
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8 Workaround: ./configure --disable-fastmemcpy
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9 SOLVED: disabled SSE code in fastmemcpy.h ;(
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11 2. No image (black image) in RGB 16bpp (x11,dga,fbdev,svga) playing
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12 MPEG files on SMP machine:
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13 Problem: bug(?) in MMX YV12->RGB16 converter code
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14 Workaround: ./configure --disable-mmx
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15 SOLVED: bug of gcc-2.96 - you should use 2.95.2 or 2.95.3
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17 3. SIGILL (signal 4) or other fault at loading l3codeca.acm:
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18 Problem: shared libs are loaded to 0x00xxxxxx instead of 0x40xxxxxx
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19 Workaround: mplayer -afm 1 ...
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20 SOLVED: you are using some security kernel patch, like OpenWall etc.
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22 4. General SIGILL (signal 4):
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23 Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines
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24 (for example compiled on P3 and runinng on celeron)
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25 Solution: compile MPlayer on machine where you will use it
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26 Workaround: ./configure --disable-sse etc. options
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28 Various A-V sync and other audio problems:
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30 General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):
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31 - bad select() in audio driver (including ALSA's OSS emulation)
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32 Workaround: ./configure --disable-select
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33 SOLVED: using ioctls instead of select in the new audio code
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34 - audio buffer problems
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35 Workaround: mplayer -abs option
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36 SOLVED: using ioctls in the new audio code
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37 - slow machine (cpu or vga)
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38 try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver:
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39 Workaround: buy a faster card or read DOCS/VIDEOCARDS about how to speed up
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40 SOLVED: try -framedrop (maybe -hardframedrop)
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42 Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:
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43 - bad file (please upload the file, so we can check & fix)
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44 Workaround: -ni or -bps option (for non-interlaved or bad files)
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45 -mc 0 (required for files with VBR audio)
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46 -delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay
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47 - your soundcard doesn't support 48Khz playback
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48 Workaround: buy a better soundcard...
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49 or try to decrease fps by 10% (use -fps 27 for a 30fps movie)
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51 After many > or ^ (fast forward) audio vs. video is going out of sync (ASF/AVI)
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52 - bug in mplayer code (a-v sync probs after seek... not really bug but
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53 my avi/asf seeking code is not perfect yet)
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54 Workaround: -bps
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56 Signal 11 in decode_audio:
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57 - mp3lib doesn't handle (yet) well bad/broken audio streams
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58 Workaround: -afm 4
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59 SOLVED: fixed mp3lib, it must be rock solid now!
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60 - if it's still bad, try with -nosound [and report the bug, see BUGREPORTS]
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62 No sound at all:
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63 - your file uses an unsupported codec
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64 Workaround: read DOCS/CODECS, and help us adding support for it
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66 Video-out problems:
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68 First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
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69 supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
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70 Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.
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72 [TODO: known libvo bugs]
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75 A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team