mplayer video output driver not working

[Kevin Smith]

PS, since xine is working, i ran xine --verbose and noticed that it was 
using the xv output driver, so this is working with xine, but not with 
mplayer -vo xv  [..]    (I tried -vo gl and a bunch of others to no avail.)



Michael Nottebrock wrote:

>On Friday, 26. November 2004 05:25, Kevin Smith wrote:
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>>I'm trying to get DVD playback working using mplayer (MPlayer
>>1.0pre5-3.4.2) on my system (P4 - BSD 5.3 with Nvidia FX5200).
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>>I have xine playing back DVD's just fine, but I would like to use
>>mplayer as well.
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>>I built it from the ports tree (default options) and when I run mplayer
>>using the following command, I get the following text back.
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>>Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
>>==========================================================================
>>Audio: no sound
>>Starting playback...
>>VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
>>VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
>>Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
>>VO: [xv] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12
>>V:   0.0    1   0%  0%  0.0% 0 0 0%
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>>Exiting... (End of file)
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>The output doesn't suggest there's a problem with the video output driver. 
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>[mpegpes] is a special passthrough decoder driver for use with hardware mpeg2 
>decoders. It comes first in the order of drivers to be tried for MPEG video, 
>but will fail if no such hardware is present. The second decoder driver 
>[mpeg12] is the one that's actually used, and it initializes just fine. 
>However, the title you're trying to play seems to be just very very short 
>(mplayer doesn't currently support DVD navigation menus, it just plays the 
>available titles in ascending order, which is not necessarily the correct 
>order).
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>Try playing a different title (for example dvd://2).
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