mplayer / slackcurrent

[geep]

Hi,

I'm running Slack Current guest in VirtualBox on a Slack 12.2 Host.
I've got problems with MPlayer r29789-4.3.3 which come with Slack Current.

mplayer from the command line works fine with an http video stream,
both video and sound.

But with gmplayer from the command line I get lots of messages like:
[png @ 0x90224f0]Found 1 unreleased buffers!
and then I always get a popup:
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Then just the sound plays, but no video

In gmplayer Preferences I can select from:
xv x11 gl gl2 xvidix
They all give the same result error popup.

I have setup the ~/.mplayer/config file which is picked up by mplayer.
mplayer runs OK with any of:
vo=gl or vo=gl2 or vo=sdl

But these don't seem to be picked up by gmplayer.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Peter

[geep]

I've half answered my own question.
gmplayer -vo sdl
works OK, but still gives lots of

[png @ 0x90224f0]Found 1 unreleased buffers

errors.

But "gmplayer -vo gl" and "gmplayer -vo gl2" both result in a
"MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode video"
fatal error popup.

It seems that gmplayer ignores ~/.mplayer/config

I'm happy I have a workaround.
Left wondering if the problem is "virtual" due to use of VirtualBox,
or if it's a "real" problem which appears on "real" Slack installation.

Cheers,
Peter

[andrew]

On 2009-11-14, geep <gee...@boursomail.com> wrote:

> Any ideas?

GMPlayer has been effectively abandoned by the MPlayer developers, might
be time that Slackware did the same?

Andrew

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[geep]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:10:47 +1100, andrew wrote:

> On 2009-11-14, geep <gee...@boursomail.com> wrote:
>
>> Any ideas?
>
> GMPlayer has been effectively abandoned by the MPlayer developers, might
> be time that Slackware did the same?
>
> Andrew

Oh.
From the many alternative guis I have pseudo-randomly picked smplayer.
Have installed smplayer-0.6.8 on Slack Current guest in VirtualBox.
Works perfectly.
Also on real PC running 12.2
Cheers,
Peter

[andrew]

On 2009-11-15, geep <gee...@boursomail.com> wrote:

> From the many alternative guis I have pseudo-randomly picked smplayer.
> Have installed smplayer-0.6.8 on Slack Current guest in VirtualBox.
> Works perfectly.

This is my own choice as well :).

[barnabyh]

andrew wrote:
> On 2009-11-15, geep <gee...@boursomail.com> wrote:
>
>> From the many alternative guis I have pseudo-randomly picked smplayer.
>> Have installed smplayer-0.6.8 on Slack Current guest in VirtualBox.
>> Works perfectly.
>
> This is my own choice as well :).
>
> Andrew
>

What's wrong with the mplayer-gui ?

Thanks,
Barnaby

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[andrew]

On 2009-11-16, barnabyh <inv...@address.org> wrote:

> What's wrong with the mplayer-gui ?

If you mean gmplayer have a quick look at current discussion about
removing it from the MPlayer source tree:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2009-June/061706.html

[barnabyh]

andrew wrote:
> On 2009-11-16, barnabyh <inv...@address.org> wrote:
>
>> What's wrong with the mplayer-gui ?
>
> If you mean gmplayer have a quick look at current discussion about
> removing it from the MPlayer source tree:
>
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2009-June/061706.html
>
> Andrew
>

Hmm, thanks for that. I'm talking about the 'traditional' interface that
comes with the Blue skin normally and which is now part of SL13, unless
this is gmplayer.
In general I prefer this to smplayer, just like I prefer xine-gui to gxine.

Anyways-

Barnaby

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5 years of Linux only - and loving it.