Mplayer stutter

serzz · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 153

Some of avi files stutter under mplayer. In bsplayer you just needed to download latest xvid pack. I've tryed same method but it didn't helped. Any advice?

Little Nemo · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 3:55 pm Post subject:

Which codec were those AVI files encoded with?

serzz · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 153

Xvid I think

Little Nemo · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject:

And what video codec does mplayer use for playing the file? It's in the mplayer output under "Selected video codec".

serzz · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 153

hmmm...I don't understand...from where should I look?

Little Nemo · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject:

When you start mplayer on the command line, it produces a lot of console output. This line is towards the end of that output.

serzz · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 153

Alright here it is:

Little Nemo · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 10:26 am Post subject:

In your case mplayer uses the ffmpeg library to decode the avi file. You can specify which codec to use for decoding with "-vc" or "-vfm". Try "mplayer -vc help" for a list of available codecs. See "man mplayer" for details. You can also specify options for Xvid with "-xvidopts".

I guess that "mplayer -vc xvid" will produce a better result for your avi file(s). (I haven't tried that option myself yet, look into the output of mplayer whether libxvidcore is indeed used.)

serzz · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 153

when I use xvid codec it seems that quality of movie is perfect as long as don't put it on full screen it. After that there appears many squares of different colors. Any advice?

Little Nemo · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 8:44 pm Post subject:

Nope. Looks perfect here. You said you did upgrade to the latest xvid?

serzz · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 153

yeah last stable

Little Nemo · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 10:03 pm Post subject:

Try 1.0.0_rc4 (unstable). Runs without problems here.

serzz · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 153

I updated that and updated etc and now it seems that everything is blue.

Little Nemo · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 9:13 am Post subject:

I am not a native English speaker (as you can tell), so I'm confused at what your last posting means :oops:

serzz · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 153

Alright I solved this Blue problem.
I just played it with this line # mplayer -vc divx Being\ John\ Malkovich.divx
But how I set mplayer to permamently use this codec?

Little Nemo · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 9:21 am Post subject:

Put this line into your /etc/mplayer.conf (system-wide) or ~/.mplayer/config:

serzz · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 153

Now it's goin' very strange. Whaen I switch to fullmode everything turns blue.

Little Nemo · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 9:40 am Post subject:

I haven't seen this yet. Examine mplayer's output carefully for hints on what's happening.

Sipi · Guru Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 406 Location: Hungary

Fullscrean blue should mean that your video output is not good.

MPlayer can play video with different output methods. E.g. using XVideo extension, SDL laer, etc.

I think you use XVideo out. Try to use it with "-vo sdl" switch.

Issue "mplayer -vo help" to see what kind of otputs your MPlayer knows. You should try different ones, because on my system xvoutput is the fastest, but it differs from system to system.

Sipi