Mplayer (DVD) has sound but no picture

[dciwalsh]

Hi, I'm trying to get mplayer to play dvds. I type

mplayer -vo x11 -ao alsa9 -gui -dvd 1

and mplayer starts, the sound of the dvd plays, but
the picture is black.

Here's is the output:


MPlayer 0.90pre6-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
SSE supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 104 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Linux RTC init error: No such file or directory
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
[cfg] read config file: /root/.mplayer/gui.conf
SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin'
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)

Playing DVD title 1
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 6 titles on this DVD.
There are 31 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened!
Detected MPEG-PS file format!
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.97 fps 10000.0 kbps (1250.0 kbyte/s)
Detected audio codec: [a52] afm:14 (AC3-liba52)
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3-liba52
Using 3DNowEx optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 384.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, sfmt: 0x10 (2 bps), ratio: 48000->192000 (384.0 kbit)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Couldn't find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Sorry, selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12
Detected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:1 (MPEG 1 or 2)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa9] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
alsa-init: testing and bugreports are welcome.
alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 2 channels, Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: hw:0,0
alsa9: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/16384 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
Start playing...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Danny

[bzzy]

You must select the video output device which is suitable for your videocard

x11 isn't compatible with the used codec.

go to: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/info.html
for more information.

[Valen]

From my experience using xv tends to fix quite a few problems, I haven't tried it with dvds but I have used it with other mpeg2 encoded movies.

[dciwalsh]

I still can't get the picture to show. I've been trying different
options with vo and vc.

When I type "mplayer -vo help" I get:

Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

Available video output drivers:
xv X11/Xv
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
...
null Null video output
mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")
vesa VESA VBE 2.0 video output
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)

"mplayer -vc help" gives me:


MPlayer 0.90pre6-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
SSE supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

Reading /home/danny/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/danny/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 104 video codecs
Available video codecs:
vc: vfm: status: info: [lib/dll]
mpegpes 25 working Mpeg PES output (.mpg or Dxr3/DVB card)
mpeg12 1 working MPEG 1 or 2 [libmpeg2]
ffmpeg12 5 working FFmpeg MPEG 1/2 [mpegvideo]
nuv 15 working NuppelVideo


Now if I run "mplayer -vc mpegpes -vo xv -gui -dvd 1"
The picture is black and I get the error message
"Can't find codec matching selected -vo and video format
0x10000002!"

However if I run "mplayer -vc ffmpeg12 -vo xv -gui -dvd 1"
I don't get any error messages at all, but the picture is
still black???!?!?!?!