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Offline DrDynamic

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Need help with vlc and mplayer.......flv playback very choppy.
« on: February 23, 2013, 09:17:10 PM »
I love PCLOS. First tried it on my laptop. I loved it so much I dual booted my desktop. But this problem is specific to my desktop. Which is strange considering my desktop is faster with better graphics. Anyways,  its an older desktop, amd 3200+, 2gig ram, geforce 210 graphics. The problem is with video playback on vlc or mplayer. I can get flashplayer working fairly well. I had to downgrade to version 11.1 which I hear is common with certain nvidia cards. But I have no clue how to get vlc working. It works perfect on my old laptop, which is basically a heap of garbage. This desktop should easily handle playing flv videos. And I'm talking about flv after its already been downloaded with say download helper or downloadthemall. By the way I'm running the lxde version. I tried the kde, but I'm addicted to the speed of lxde. Its up to date, I check every day. I tried to search and find out if I was missing any dependencies, but I can up with nothing. Anybody else have any experience with this. Any help would be appreciated. Next weekend I will log on to the chat room and see if I can get any help there but I really don't have much time until then. Really just hoping someone can shoot me a quick fix. OH........and I've only been using linux for a week so please respond accordingly, thanks.

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Re: Need help with vlc and mplayer.......flv playback very choppy.
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2013, 04:56:20 AM »
Hello, and welcome to the forums, DrDynamic!

Please open a terminal, and start a movie with mplayer.
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mplayer $HOME/Downloads/*.flv
$HOME/Downloads will open your download folder in your home directory.
* is an available video in your download folder
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mplayer /Daten/Video/Musik/Die\ toten\ Hosen-An\ Tagen\ wie\ diesen.flv
MPlayer 1.1-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not open config files /home/daniel/.lircrc and /etc/lirc/lircrc
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to read LIRC config file ~/.lircrc.

Playing /Daten/Video/Musik/Die toten Hosen-An Tagen wie diesen.flv.
libavformat version 54.6.101 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0
VIDEO:  [H264]  854x480  0bpp  25.000 fps  911.3 kbps (111.2 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 starttime: 0
 totalduration: 271
 totaldatarate: 1025
 bytelength: 34778703
 canseekontime: true
 sourcedata: B4A7DA085HH1336225902916899
 purl:
 pmsg:
Load subtitles in /Daten/Video/Musik/
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 54.23.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 130.3 kbit/9.24% (ratio: 16293->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Unsupported PixelFormat 53
Unsupported PixelFormat 81
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 854x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12  [zoom]
A:  26.6 V:  26.6 A-V: -0.000 ct:  0.040   0/  0 24%  2%  0.8% 5 0


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_timer
A:  26.6 V:  26.6 A-V:  0.004 ct:  0.040   0/  0 24%  2%  0.8% 5 0

If you have spaces in your path to the movie set the sources in ""
mplayer "/Daten/Video/Musik/Die toten Hosen-An Tagen wie diesen.flv"
or add a  \ for the spaces
mplayer /Daten/Video/Musik/Die\ toten\ Hosen-An\ Tagen\ wie\ diesen.flv

Post the output, please

Regards
Daniel


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Re: Need help with vlc and mplayer.......flv playback very choppy.
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2013, 05:03:23 PM »
Hey man,

    I solved my own problem. I think it had something to do with installing wine. Somehow wine screwed up the video output settings on both players. Now when I set both players (vlc and mplayer) to default output they both freeze. I have to manually switch the output to X11, and it works fine. Thanks for the reply.