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Author: shirish शिरीष
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To: debian-multimedia, Debian-multimedia-maintainers
Subject: unable to play a VCD in mplayer 2 but am able to play with mplayer1. (.dat format)
Hi all,
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I have been trying to play a VCD it plays with mplayer1 fine but is
unable to play with mplayer2. Can somebody tell me if its a bug or
something else. First some info. about the VCD in question :-

/media/NEW$ ls
cdi ext mpegav segment vcd

/media/NEW$ du -shc
562M .
562M total

/media/NEW/mpegav$ ll -h
total 560M
-r-------- 1 shirish shirish 2.8M Sep 18 2004 avseq01.dat
-r-------- 1 shirish shirish 557M Sep 18 2004 avseq02.dat

Now here's the info. when I play the CD first with mplayer2 and then
with mplayer1.

With mplayer2 :-

    /media/NEW$ mplayer2 vcd://3 /media/NEW/
    MPlayer2 UNKNOWN (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
    mplayer: could not connect to socket
    mplayer: No such file or directory
    Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your
remote control.


    Playing vcd://3.
    track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 1
    track 02:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:18:59  mode: 1
    track 03:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:40:13  mode: 1



    MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: open_stream
    - 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.



Trying again :-

/media/NEW$ mplayer2 vcd://3 /media/NEW
MPlayer2 UNKNOWN (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing vcd://3.
track 01: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:02:00 mode: 1
track 02: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:18:59 mode: 1
track 03: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:40:13 mode: 1


MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: open_stream
- 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.

Now trying again with mplayer 1.

mplayer1 vcd://3 /media/NEW
Failed to read /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf.local: No such file or directory
Warning unknown option include at line 171
MPlayer SVN-r34531 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing vcd://3.
track 01: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:02:00 mode: 1
track 02: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:18:59 mode: 1
track 03: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:40:13 mode: 1
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 352x288 (aspect 1) 25.000 fps 1150.0 kbps (143.8 kbyte/s)
track 01: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:02:00 mode: 1
track 02: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:18:59 mode: 1
track 03: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:40:13 mode: 1
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] This driver only supports the 3Dfx Banshee, Voodoo3 and Voodoo 5.
s3fb: Couldn't map S3 registers: Operation not permitted
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 53.54.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg1] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [mpg123] (afm=mpg123) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 224.0 kbit/7.94% (ratio: 28000->352800)
Selected audio codec: [ffmp2float] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-1
and layer-2 audio)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=2.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
Movie-Aspect is 1.22:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 352x288 => 352x288 Planar YV12
A: 7.0 V: 7.0 A-V: 0.000 ct: 0.026 169/169 6% 0% 9.9% 8 0

Exiting... (Quit)

As can be seen it tries to use or go through different decoders and
then finds one which can actually play the file.

I have no idea why it does not work with mplayer2. Maybe as a user I'm
not giving the right command or something.

Also as can be seen there is sorta empty file at ~/.mplayer :-

~/.mplayer$ cat config
# Write your default config options here!

Looking forward for answers.
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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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