[MPlayer-users] mplayer only as root

[darkshadow at shaw.ca]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:44:42 -0600
Bob Gill <gillb4 at telusplanet.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi.  I have a bug (at least I think so, I've built the latest version, 
> the latest CVS and looked through the faqs (both) and documentation.  
> I've also experimented and the problem remains.  The bug:  I run mplayer 
> as root, and it runs ok (dvd playback, many different files played back 
> including avi's and mpg's).  I run mplayer as non-root and playback is 
> slow and jerky.  I've looked at google and saw that /dev/rtc could be a 
> problem, so I changed the permissions and users allowed.  Problem 
> remains.  As mentioned before, the CVS sub-version does not help (as 
> before, it runs perfectly as root, but very slowly as non-root).  When 
> playing (encrypted) DVD's as non-root, it eventually gives an error 
> message 'too many packets in buffer'. 
> My system:  RedHat Linux 9.0 updated with yum, running Linux kernel 
> 2.6.0-test7
> My audio: Soundblaster Live Value
> My video: Nvidia Ti4200 with a patched Nvidia binary driver (to work 
> with the new kernel).
> Intel pentium4  @ 1800 MHz  overclocked by 5% to 1890 MHz.
> 1GB of PC2700 DDR memory.
> I must also mention that -nosound does improve things somewhat, but 
> video is still jerky.  There are no problems (audio or video) when 
> running as root.
> 
> Startup sequence:
> 
> 
> [bob at localhost MPlayer-1.0pre2]$ mplayer -nosound
> MPlayer 1.0pre2-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
>  
> CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood 1890 MHz (Family: 8, 
> Stepping: 4)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>  
> Reading config file 
> /data/mplayer/MPlayer-1.0-pre2/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
> directory
> Reading config file /home/bob/.mplayer/config
> [cfg] read config file: /home/bob/.mplayer/gui.conf
> Reading config file /home/bob/.mplayer/gui.conf
> vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local 
> display)
> xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=8388614.
> Reading /home/bob/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 157 video codecs
> font: can't open file: 
> /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/iso-8859-1/arial-14/font.desc
> Cannot load font: 
> /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/iso-8859-1/arial-14/font.desc
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such device (mplayer should be setuid root 
> or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
> Using usleep() timing
> Input config file /home/bob/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds
> SKIN dir 1: '/home/bob/.mplayer/Skin'
> SKIN dir 2: '/data/mplayer/MPlayer-1.0-pre2/share/mplayer/Skin'
>  
> Playing dvd://1
> Reading disc structure, please wait...
> There are 18 titles on this DVD.
> There are 27 chapters in this DVD title.
> There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
> DVD successfully opened.
> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    MPEG-PS file format detected.
> VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  9801.6 kbps (1225.2 kbyte/s)
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1
> 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 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> VO: [x11] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
> SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 32-bit special converter
> xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=8388614.
> V:   2.1   57  14% 17%  0.0% 0 0 18%
> demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine fx. FPS 
> changed to 23.976!
> V:   4.5  116  13% 14%  0.0% 0 0 6%%
> Exiting... (Quit)
> 
> I modified /dev/rtc to  crw-rw-rw-    1 bob      users     10, 135 Jan 
> 30  2003 /dev/rtc
> (to allow all read access, and chowned it from root/root to bob/users, 
> no success).  I have downloaded new codecs and deleted the old ones 
> prior to installing the new ones to make sure there were no old ones 
> lying around.  I also ran chown -R bob.users mplayer/* to make sure 
> local users had access to all files at the top of the mplayer source tree.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Bob
> 
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Try using "-vo xv" it is alot faster then x11 which is currently used