MPlayer and X.org

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Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 3:07 am

Basically I just want to view my videos in fullscreen with MPlayer (1.0pre4) on xorg.

mplayer -vo xv

just freezes.

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mplayer -vo x11

plays fine but it won't scale to fullscreen.

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mplayer -vo xover

replies "VO XOverlay need a subdriver" and exits.

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mplayer -vo gl

plays but every pixel from the diagonal to the left upper corner gets somehow stretched (so basically I can only see what's going on from the diagonal to the right lower corner.

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mplayer -vo gl2

behaves somewhat like "gl" except that now I get black screen.

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mplayer -vo dga

reports "vo_dga: can't get modelines" and exits.

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mplayer -vo sdl

freezes and kills the console.

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mplayer -vo ggi

plays... but I can't scale it. (btw plays without X too)

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mplayer -vo fbdev

says "The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec." and I have to kill it from another console.

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mplayer -vo fbdev2

plays fine but again... not scalable (also without X)

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mplayer -vo svga

hates X, without X the screen goes blank.

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mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg

only gives me audio before it breaks down.

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mplayer -vo vesa

just plain hates me... it just exits.

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mplayer -vo xvidix

tells me "vosub_vidix: Couldn't find working VIDIX driver" (SiS 630)

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mplayer -vo cvidix

plain and simple exits.

MPlayer was compiled with USE="sdl ggi svga -X -xv opengl mmx mmx2 matroska theora oggvorbis sse sse2"

If someone has any ideas (or suggestions for an alternate non-KDE and non-Gnome player) please... do come forward. (tried VLC and Xine... didn't like them).

Edit (30min later): I found out vesa works... from a virtual console (no X) and only as root. It adds an annoying black frame around the video tho... But it's the best I can do for now.

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:26 am

as a reply to a request in another topic (since this is a more aptopriate corner of gentoo forums)... here's what xvinfo tells me:

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pithlit@machina media $ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "SIS 300/315/330 series Video Overlay"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 68
    operations supported: PutImage 
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x22
      depth 24, visualID 0x23
      depth 24, visualID 0x24
      depth 24, visualID 0x25
      depth 24, visualID 0x26
      depth 24, visualID 0x27
      depth 24, visualID 0x28
      depth 24, visualID 0x29
      depth 24, visualID 0x2a
      depth 24, visualID 0x2b
      depth 24, visualID 0x2c
      depth 24, visualID 0x2d
      depth 24, visualID 0x2e
      depth 24, visualID 0x2f
      depth 24, visualID 0x30
      depth 24, visualID 0x31
    number of attributes: 57
      "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 66046)
      "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -128 to 127)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 10)
      "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 7)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
      "XV_SET_DEFAULTS" (range 0 to 0)
              client settable attribute
      "XV_TVXPOSITION" (range -32 to 32)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_TVYPOSITION" (range -32 to 32)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_DISABLE_GRAPHICS" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_DISABLE_GRAPHICS_LR" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_DISABLE_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_USE_CHROMAKEY" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_INSIDE_CHROMAKEY" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_YUV_CHROMAKEY" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_CHROMAMIN" (range 0 to 16777215)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 66046)
      "XV_CHROMAMAX" (range 0 to 16777215)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 66047)
      "XV_QUERYVBFLAGS" (range 0 to -1)
              client gettable attribute (current value is 587202562)
      "XV_SD_GETDRIVERVERSION" (range 0 to -1)
              client gettable attribute (current value is 17039898)
      "XV_SD_GETHARDWAREINFO" (range 0 to -1)
              client gettable attribute (current value is 822345728)
      "XV_SD_GETBUSID" (range 0 to -1)
              client gettable attribute (current value is 65536)
      "XV_SD_QUERYVBFLAGSVERSION" (range 0 to -1)
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
      "XV_SD_GETSDFLAGS" (range 0 to -1)
              client gettable attribute (current value is 72495153)
      "XV_SD_UNLOCKSISDIRECT" (range 0 to -1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_SD_SETVBFLAGS" (range 0 to -1)
              client settable attribute
      "XV_SD_QUERYDETECTEDDEVICES" (range 0 to -1)
              client gettable attribute (current value is 2)
      "XV_SD_CRT1STATUS" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_SD_CHECKMODEINDEXFORCRT2" (range 0 to -1)
              client settable attribute
      "XV_SD_RESULTCHECKMODEINDEXFORCRT2" (range 0 to -1)
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_SD_SISANTIFLICKER" (range 0 to 4)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
      "XV_SD_SISSATURATION" (range 0 to 15)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
      "XV_SD_SISEDGEENHANCE" (range 0 to 15)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
      "XV_SD_SISCOLCALIBF" (range -128 to 127)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_SD_SISCOLCALIBC" (range -120 to 120)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_SD_SISCFILTER" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
      "XV_SD_SISYFILTER" (range 0 to 8)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
      "XV_SD_CHCONTRAST" (range 0 to 15)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
      "XV_SD_CHTEXTENHANCE" (range 0 to 15)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
      "XV_SD_CHCHROMAFLICKERFILTER" (range 0 to 15)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
      "XV_SD_CHLUMAFLICKERFILTER" (range 0 to 15)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
      "XV_SD_CHCVBSCOLOR" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
      "XV_SD_CHOVERSCAN" (range 0 to 3)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_SD_ENABLEGAMMA" (range 0 to 3)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 3)
      "XV_SD_TVXSCALE" (range -16 to 16)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_SD_TVYSCALE" (range -4 to 3)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_SD_GETSCREENSIZE" (range 0 to -1)
              client gettable attribute (current value is 67109632)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMABRIR" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMABRIG" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMABRIB" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMAPBRIR" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMAPBRIG" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMAPBRIB" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMABRIR2" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMABRIG2" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMABRIB2" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMAPBRIR2" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMAPBRIG2" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_STOREDGAMMAPBRIB2" (range 100 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1000)
      "XV_SD_PANELMODE" (range 0 to 15)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
    maximum XvImage size: 720 x 576
    Number of image formats: 6
      id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
        guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
        guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x59565955 (UYVY)
        guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x30323449 (I420)
        guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x35315652 (RV15)
        guid: 52563135-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: RGB (packed)
        depth: 15
        red, green, blue masks: 0x7c00, 0x3e0, 0x1f
      id: 0x36315652 (RV16)
        guid: 52563136-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: RGB (packed)
        depth: 16
        red, green, blue masks: 0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
pithlit@machina media $

ZeroDivide · Post by **ZeroDivide** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:32 am

Why not just use -vo x11 with -zoom enabled?

mplayer -vo x11 -zoom blah.mpg

It will be slower then using xv but the video quality can be a lot better depending on what software scaler ( -sws ) you use.

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:46 pm

Greatness! Thanks... that works

and as of "why not just use..." I was a tad too frustrated to stop and think about what I'm doing

Thanks again.

fafhrd · Post by **fafhrd** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:48 pm

uhmm

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USE="sdl ggi svga -X -xv opengl mmx mmx2 matroska theora oggvorbis sse sse2"

are you not using X at all? Since you tried x11 and sv as output, I'd imagine building mplayer with X and xv support would help

Xorg and xv works great for me, except for when I'm using a Xinerama setup, then it just doesn't like it and I resort to x11

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:56 pm

the "X" flag is documented as "adds XFree86 support" so I figure it's a tad useless for xorg... "xv" just plain didn't work so I excluded it.

And yes... I tried compiling mplayer with those flags enabled first.

fafhrd · Post by **fafhrd** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 3:13 pm

Looking at the ebuild for my current mplayer install: /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r1.ebuild, it looks like having "X" as a use flag does this:

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    use X || use gtk \
        || myconf="${myconf} --disable-gui --disable-x11 --disable-xv \
                --disable-xmga --disable-png"

It makes sense that if you don't want the GUI then USE="-X", but it looks like that also turns off xv, which is not ideal

X is documented incorrectly, most likely, it should probably say "Adds X11 library support" 'cuase at this point all the different choices for what X server to use still make a libX11.so and whatnot.

If you already compiled with those options above, I'm not sure what to say. However, compile it again with X, as it looks like you need it for X11 windowing and XV support, and then let's see where you stand.

Also, posting a link to your xorg.conf couldn't hurt (or just post the whole thing

)

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 3:20 pm

I'll post a link (don't like to spam with those huge conf pastes)... but first I need to get out of the bed and wake up.

::just a lil something for the humor::

ZeroDivide · Post by **ZeroDivide** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:03 pm

Pithlit wrote:Greatness! Thanks... that works and as of "why not just use..." I was a tad too frustrated to stop and think about what I'm doing

Thanks again.

I hear yah..
The man page for mplayer is huge but you can find lots of cool stuff if you take the time to look around.
Guess who has too much free time on his hands..

Anyway, glad to hear you got it working

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Sat May 01, 2004 3:07 pm

OK... 1st: sorry I couldn't post earlier...

2nd: *rant* My ISP crapped out and guess who was to blame (according to them)

And now.... the promised link to my xorg.conf http://www.netsphere.ws/Random/xorg.conf

Now while I was out of contact with the rest of the world *sob sob* I discovered a couple of interesting things:

Under no circumstances does XV work while using the gui (gmplayer).. but I don't use the gui that often so it doesn't really bother me.

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mplayer -vo xv

as a user is a no-no.
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mplayer -vo xv

as root works perfectly... but only for the first video I run after starting X

all the following videos just bail out.[/code]

schutten · Post by **schutten** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:57 pm

I posted a workaround to the bug #47755 to the gentoo bugzilla:

The workaround is:
add
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"
to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
in Section "Device" describing the ATI card.

my versions:
xorg-x11 6.7.0
ati-drivers 3.7.6-r1

my screen resolution: 1024x768 @ 32 bits colour depth

so far I have seen no adverse effects of using this option...

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 1:45 pm

Wow people still read this after... 2 months

And thanks for the help, but I don't have an ATI card... I have the SiS630. I'll try that anyway. Who knows, maybe it'll work.

bdonlan · Post by **bdonlan** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:07 pm

I just switched to Xorg, and I am also having problems with xv. This is made even more annoying in that I switched in hopes of fixing bug 8927 (1 year and no stable ebuild with the fix!). I have a i810 chipset.

mplayer does not crash in my case, it gives me an error:

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(snip)
VO: [xv] 480x360 => 480x360 Planar YV12 
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)


MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: flip_page
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x5a)!

Here is my xvinfo:

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X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "I810 Video Overlay"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 61
    operations supported: PutImage 
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x23
      depth 24, visualID 0x24
      depth 24, visualID 0x25
      depth 24, visualID 0x26
    number of attributes: 3
      "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 66046)
      "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -128 to 127)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 255)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 64)
    maximum XvImage size: 1440 x 1080
    Number of image formats: 6
      id: 0x35315652 (RV15)
        guid: 52563135-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: RGB (packed)
        depth: 15
        red, green, blue masks: 0x7c00, 0x3e0, 0x1f
      id: 0x36315652 (RV16)
        guid: 52563136-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: RGB (packed)
        depth: 16
        red, green, blue masks: 0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
      id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
        guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
        guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x30323449 (I420)
        guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x59565955 (UYVY)
        guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)

teedog · Post by **teedog** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:02 am

bdonlan, did you try adding

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Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"

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/etc/X11/xorg.conf

?

bdonlan · Post by **bdonlan** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:33 pm

Ah, thanks, that did it. I thought that option was ATI-only :/

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:14 pm

*nod nod* works on my SiS too...

sorry for the late response, but I forgot to restart X till just a few minutes ago

smn · Post by **smn** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:39 am

schutten wrote:The workaround is:
add
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"
to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
in Section "Device" describing the ATI card.

thanks for the hint, works fine here

trooper_ryan · Post by **trooper_ryan** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:24 am

Worked for me on a sis630

tragor · Post by **tragor** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:24 pm

This does work for me on a 915GM - *but* only, if I terminate kompose before!! This is unacceptable realy! It all worked fine with the previous version of xorg-server! Though, I'm not sure which one it was... Does anybody know, if the cause is found by the developers already?

tragor

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:40 pm

Pithlit wrote:Wow people still read this after... 2 months