mplayer SVN plays video too fast on FreeBSD

[Andrius Morkūnas]

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:34:13 +0200, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2009/12/7 Andrius Morkūnas <hinokind at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:45:48 +0200, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Most of the changes in that diff are fbsd fixes - I'm a bit surprised
>>> your mplayer works properly/efficiently without the bswap fix (it will
>>> be using the naive C version). I'll try recompiling the whole package
>>> with -DBROKEN_RELOCATIONS. I don't think the number of configure
>>> options are affecting it, but I'll try a minimal version as well, just
>>> to see.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>
>> Not the number of configure options, but maybe there is a particular option
>> that causes problems, and with so many of them, it's hard to tell.
>> Afaik -DBROKEN_RELOCATIONS is amd64-only thing, I didn't see what arch you
>> are running on (maybe I just fail at reading). Considering the number of
>> patches it looks like i386, since last time I checked it required more work
>> (local patches) than amd64 version.
>> I'm not an expert and I didn't look at local patches for mplayer too much,
>> just making it compile was the goal, and it works now. Performance is good.
>> It's not significantly faster/slower than whatever I've tried on Windows.
>>
>> --
>> Andrius
>>
>
> It's amd64 - I actually already had -DBROKEN_LOCATIONS as one of the
> diffs, in the libavcodec Makefile. This was to apply it to the whole
> build and see if it helped - it didn't :/
>
> I applied all the patches that were in the ports directory that were
> sane and still valid as far as I could tell from the new code and the
> cvs log of the patch - most weren't necessary any more, but I guess
> the FreeBSD specific bug fix ones hadn't been merged upstream.
>
> Can you tell me what revision you are currently running? I'll try that
> revision, see if it works and bisect the breaking change. svnversion
> in the checkout, or I think it is printed each time you run mplayer.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom

$ mplayer | head -n 1
MPlayer SVN-r29975-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE

You may want to discuss this with mplayer guys, maybe it's a known issue
and not FreeBSD-specific.
-- 
Andrius