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<HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR=white> <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> <P><B><A NAME=5>5. FAQ section</A></B></P> <TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH=100% ALIGN=left> <TD COLSPAN=3><P><B><A NAME=5.1>5.1 Compilation</A></B></P> </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> What's the problem with gcc 2.96 ? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> gcc 2.96 is RedHat's UNOFFICIAL (it can be found only on RedHat sites, or RedHat distributions) and BUGGY gcc release. gcc 2.96 is TOTALLY unsupported by <B>MPlayer</B>, because it simply SKIPS MMX codes, it just does not compile it. Important: this is NOT an <B>MPlayer</B>-specific problem, numerous other projects (DRI, avifile, etc..) have problems with this shit too.<BR>** DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!! ** </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Great, I have gcc 3.0.1 from RedHat/Mandrake, then I'm fine--! </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> No :) Their gcc 3.0.1 was compiled with gcc 2.96, so they are buggy shit too. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Now then. What should I use? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Any of gcc 2.95 series. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is .... </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+). It does NOT work with 1.1.6, 1.1.5 1.1.4 1.1.3 1.0.4 etc, don't ask. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I am still having trouble compiling with SDL support. gcc says something about "undefined reference to `SDL_EnableKeyRepeat'" What's now? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local (the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add "-L/usr/local/lib " after "X_LIBS=" Now type make. You're done! </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It doesn't compile, and it misses uint64_t inttypes.h and similar things... </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> copy etc/inttypes.h to <B>MPlayer</B> directory (cp etc/inttypes.h .) try again... </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I have Pentium III but ./configure doesn't detect SSE </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Only kernel versions 2.4.x supports SSE (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer, but be prepared for problems) </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I have G200/G400, how to compile/use mga_vid driver? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Read all this documentation. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Are there rpm/deb/... packages of <B>MPlayer</B>? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> You can make a .deb package for yourself, check section <A HREF="documentation.html#6.1">6.1</A>. It's _STRONGLY_ discouraged to use precompiled packages of <B>MPlayer</B>, since it (currently) _highly_ depends on compile-time options and optimizations! Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the <B>MPlayer</B> team! </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> During 'make', MPlayer complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand, I DO have X installed!? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> ...but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not correctly. It's called XFree86-devel* under RedHat, and xlib6g-dev* under Debian. Also check if the /usr/X11 symlink exists (this can be a problem on Mandrake systems). It can be created with the<BR> <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11</CODE><BR> command. Also check the /usr/include/X11 link :<BR> <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11</CODE><BR> Your distribution may differ from the Linux Filesystem Standard. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> What about DGA driver? I can't find it!!! </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> ./configure autodetects your DGA driver. If -vo help doesn't show DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation. Try ./configure --enable-dga (and RTFM) Alternatively, try SDL's DGA driver with '-vo sdl:dga' options. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I can't compile SVGAlib.. I'm using 2.3/2.4 kernel. </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment "BACKGROUND = y" out. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I compiled MPlayer with libcss/libdivxdecore support, but when I try to start it, it says:<BR> <CODE>> error while loading shared libraries: libcss.so.0: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory</CODE><BR> I checked up on the file and it IS there in /usr/local/lib. </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> What are you doing on Linux? Can't you install a library? Why do we get these questions? It's not <B>MPlayer</B> specific at all! Add /usr/local/lib to <B>/etc/ld.so.conf</B> and run <B>ldconfig</B> . Or install it to /usr/lib , because if you can't solve the /usr/local problem, you are careless enough to do such things. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD COLSPAN=3><B><A NAME=5.2>5.2. General questions</A></B> </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> What about DVD playing ? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Read the CD/DVD section . </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> -xy option doesn't work with x11 driver (-vo x11) </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> x11 driver doesn't support scaling, but XF86VidMode support is now used: you must specify the -vm and the -fs switch, and you're done. Make sure you have the right Modelines in your XF86Config file, and try if the DGA driver (and SDL's DGA driver, see RTFM) works for you. It's much faster. If SDL's DGA works too, use that, it'll be EVEN faster! </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> What is the meaning of numbers in the status line? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> See: <CODE>A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57 41% 0% 2.6% 0</CODE><BR> <UL> <LI>A: audio position in seconds <LI>V: video position in seconds <LI>A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay) <LI>ct: total A-V sync correction done <LI>frames played (counting from last seek) <LI>video codec cpu usage in percent (for mpeg it includes video_out too!) <LI>video_out cpu usage for avi, 0 for mpg (see above) <LI>audio codec cpu usage in percent <LI>frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync </UL> <I>Most of them are for debug purposes, and will be removed soon.</I> </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for mpeg files? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It's not zero, but it's built in into codec, so can't be measured separated. You should try to play the file using -vo null and then -vo ... and check the difference to see video_out speed... </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> What's XMMP? (is it XMMS or XMPS but mispelled?) </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It's a new project, see http://frozenproductions.com for details </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> There are error messages about file not found /usr/lib/win32/.... </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Download & install w32codec.zip from *our* FTP (avifile's codec package has different DLL set) </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Are there any mailing lists on MPlayer? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Yes! See RTFM on how to subscribe them! </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favourite video!! Who should I inform? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> See Appendix <A HREF="bugreports.html">C</A>. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I have problems playing files with ... codec. Can I use'em? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Check <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html</A>, if it doesn't contain your codec, read <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.4">section 2.1.4</A>, and contact us. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Umm, what is "IdegCounter"? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> A mixture of a hungarian and an english word. In english, "Ideg" means "nerve", and is pronounced as something like "ydaegh" . It was first used to measure the nervousness of A'rpi, after some (umm) "mystic" disappearance of CVS code ;) </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> LIRC doesn't work, because ... </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Are you sure you use "mplayer_lirc" instead of "mplayer"? </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow down the playing! I know it's unlikely... </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace #undef FAST_OSD with <CODE>#define FAST_OSD</CODE>. Then recompile. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> The OSD is flickering! </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv, use -double option. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> What exactly is this libavcodec? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It's from Gerard Lantau's ffmpeg package (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net). It has C language DivX ;-) and OpenDivX alpha 47 codec. Some benchmarks showed that its DivX seems to be even faster than DirectShow codec without preprocessing, and only a few percent slower than ProjectMayo's DivX4 decoder. It uses YV12 pixel format, so old Voodoo users can use it for YUV. Also, open the possibility to play DivX on virtually every computer that has a C compiler. Kinda great stuff, isn't it? </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> But configure tells me "Checking for libavcodec ... no"! </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> You need to get libavcodec from FFmpeg's CVS. Read the instructions in the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">ffmpeg section</A>. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD COLSPAN=3> <B><A NAME=5.3>5.3. File playing problems</A></B> </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> ...... works with avifile/aviplay while doesn't with MPlayer. </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <B>MPlayer</B> != avifile The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader. The codecs (dll) sets, syncronization, demultiplexing etc is totaly different and shouldn't be compared. If something works with aviplay it doesn't mean that <B>MPlayer</B> should do it and vice versa. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Audio goes out of sync playing .avi file. </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Try with -bps or -nobps option if still bad, send me (upload to ftp) that file, I'll check. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Indeo 3.x/4.x movies are viewed upside-down!!!? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec) Try if your vo driver supports the -flip switch. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Indeo 3.x,4.x video doesn't work at 32bpp resolutions (16,24 bpp are ok). </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec). </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> MPlayer exits with something error when using l3codeca.acm. </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Check 'ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer' output. If it contains<BR> <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????)</CODE><BR> where "?" is any number then it's ok, the error is not here. If it is:<BR> <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????)</CODE><BR> then there is problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which forces loading libraries to very low addresses. Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to 0x00400000, we can't change this. You should use non-patched kernel, or use <B>MPlayer</B>'s -afm 1 option to disable using l3codeca.acm. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3 sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is ok (but quiet). </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Ok son, your machine is too slow. RTFM or anything. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> MPlayer dies with "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video". </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Try running <B>MPlayer</B> on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't use <B>MPlayer</B> on different CPU than it was compiled on. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I have problems with [your window manager] and fullscreen xv/xmga/sdl/x11 modes.. </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Use the -fsmode switch. See example.conf or manpage. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> But it works with avifile! </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> So what? </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Then avifile is better! </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :) </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001! </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> You have old version of codecs.conf at ~/.mplayer/. Upgrade it from etc/ </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing happens, after about one minute the video starts playing. </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter. If you want to use arts sound, specify audio output via SDL (ao=sdl), and make sure your SDL can handle arts sound. Yet another option is to start mplayer with artsdsp. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I have an AVI that plays with grey screen with -vc odivx, and green with -vc divx4 . </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD COLSPAN=3> <B><A NAME=5.4>5.4. Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></B> </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Ok, -vo help shows DGA driver, but it is babbling about permissions! Help me! </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation. You should become to root (su -), and try again. Another solution is making mplayer SUID root, but its NOT RECOMMENDED!<BR> <CODE>chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> <CODE>chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> <CODE>chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> <B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR> This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root privilegies through suid root mplayer!!!<BR> !!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!! </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says:<BR> X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)<BR> Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM)<BR> Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)<BR> Serial number of failed request: 26<BR> Current serial number in output stream:27<BR> </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Your driver is old, update it. Either download (at least) DRI version 0.6 from <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A>, or use the DRI cvs. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX avis with my Voodoo 3/Banshee! It says:<BR> ...<BR> Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar<BR> Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar<BR> ... </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A1:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> See the previous answer. </TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A2:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Since 0.18pre4 we support libavcodec from the ffmpeg package. It contains a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...). </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage) It's known not to work with nVidia's binary shit. It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these. it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colours, right under the movie! Whose fault is this? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> It's the nVidia X driver's. These bugs are ONLY with the TNT/TNT2 cards, and we can't do anything about it, it's not our bug. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD COLSPAN=3> <B><A NAME=5.5>5.5. Feature requests</A></B> </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Is there a hint on how to watch QuickTime and RealMedia movies in MPlayer? </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> There's no way to do it. Therefore these formats deserve to die in flames. Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code. As for QuickTime, it's possible to play some old movies and this capability will be added to mplayer soon, but newer clips are all Sorenson encoded, and that codec is built-in deep in the QT executable, there's no way to use it. </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>