Mplayer - no player window! nothing!

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jacekrep · Post by **jacekrep** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:06 pm

Hi everybody,
I've got a problem with mplayer installed on my Gentoo. When I execute mplayer, everything looks right (look at the quote below), but a movie window doesn't shows! Basically, nothing happens - sound is also not playing.

MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
3DNow supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Skompilowany dla procesora z rozszerzeniami: MMX

77 audio & 188 video codecs
Playing *****.avi.
Cache fill: 0,00% (0 bytes) Detected AVI format.
VIDEO: [XVID] 640x272 12bpp 23,976 fps 1072,5 kbps (130,9 kbyte/s)
Video information:
Software: Nandub v1.0rc2
Name:
Subject:
Artist: PLuS
Copyright:
Comments:
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 4000->192000 (32,0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
alsa-init: got device=0, subdevice=0
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default

- I see this information but after that nothing happens...

When I use KMplayer, I can't play movies either. When I open a file in KMplayer, the player window is black all the time and I hear no sound. It looks like I haven't done anything.

My configuration: Athlon 2400+, GeForce Ti4200 (NVIDIA drivers), KDE 3.3 on Gentoo, MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:11 pm

Mplayer is a very good decoder, but it is a really really silly stupid dumb thing when it comes to dependancies. Maybe one of their deps has changed (you reemerge something or changed a use flag).
My advice: revdep-rebuild and see if something related is involved.
If this is not the case keeps this in mind, someday it will (and some other again).

jacekrep · Post by **jacekrep** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:11 pm

revdep-rebuild doesn't do anything connected with mplayer:

localhost jacek # revdep-rebuild

Checking reverse dependencies...
Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update,
will be recompiled.

Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)

Checking dynamic linking consistency...
broken /usr/lib/opera/plugins/operamotifwrapper-1 (requires libXm.so.1)
broken /usr/lib/opera/plugins/operamotifwrapper-2 (requires libXm.so.2)
broken /usr/bin/xpdf (requires libXm.so.2)
broken /opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins/operamotifwrapper-1 (requires libXm.so.1)
broken /opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins/operamotifwrapper-2 (requires libXm.so.2)
done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)

Assigning files to ebuilds... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)

Evaluating package order... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)

All prepared. Starting rebuild...

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:57 am

Can you try deleting the relevant config files?. Also, does the movie window reflects itself on the taskbar? Maybe it has moved out of the screen for any reason. If the player window pops up then you have to see two mplayer buttons on the taskbar... I can't think of any other thing reight now, your output does not show any error...

beandog · Post by **beandog** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:45 pm

Make sure nothing else is using ALSA at the moment of play. Otherwise, mplayer will just sit there and not open a player window. So, if you have XMMS playing, stop it. Don't pause it.

hth

placeholder · Post by **placeholder** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:47 pm

beandog wrote:Make sure nothing else is using ALSA at the moment of play. Otherwise, mplayer will just sit there and not open a player window. So, if you have XMMS playing, stop it. Don't pause it.

hth

Yeah, but that will only affect it if he lacks hardware or software mixing. If he has either one of those, that will not cause an issue.

beandog · Post by **beandog** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:22 pm

Pwnz3r wrote:Yeah, but that will only affect it if he lacks hardware or software mixing. If he has either one of those, that will not cause an issue.

That's a good point. Wouldn't it be safe to assume though that most people don't have a mixer daemon running though? I have no idea how many cards have hardware mixing support enabled.

Revellion · Post by **Revellion** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:39 am

Well he can always use Dmix in ALSA to solve the issue ^_^,

/etc/asound.conf

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pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dmixer {
        type dmix
        ipc_key 1024
        slave {
                pcm "hw:0,0"
                period_time 0
                period_size 1024
                buffer_size 4096
                rate 44100
        }
}

pcm.dsp0 {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

ctl.dmixer {
        type hw
        card 0
}

works fine on most of my boxes, and to solve any OSS issues just:

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emerge alsa-oss

and use the aoss wrapper when starting OSS using apps, Ex: $ aoss firefox

Mplayer - no player window! nothing!

Mplayer - no player window! nothing!

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