[vdr] Re: Unpleasant "feature" in MPlayer-plugin

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Huelswitt" <s.huelswitt@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: local.linux.vdr
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:47 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Unpleasant "feature" in MPlayer-plugin


> On 20 Nov 2002 "Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de> wrote:
>
> > I'm running a low-budget-only system and wanted to setup the
MPlayer-plugin
> > to playback the recordings.
> > I successfully modified mplayer.sh to use -vc ffmpeg12, -vo xv and -ao
null
> > (currently no soundcard).
> > Replaying by command-line worked fine with the modified script, but when
I
> > select a recording I get a message the channel would be blocked.
>
> What device dou you have selected as primary?

First DVB-card.

>
> > Obviously the MPlayer-plugin checks for a free MPEG-device which
> > unfortunately doesn't exist on a low-budget-card.
> >
> > So the plugin should disable that check in case there is no
MPEG-decoder.
>
> The plugin doesn't do any checks of this kind. The mplayer output
> is started the same way any other replay is started. So if you
> are able to replay VDR recordings with your system, the plugin
> should work too (not sure if replaying recordings work with a
> low-budget system).
>

Normal replaying doesn't work, of course. I thought the MPlayer-plugin would
directly send the streamed file to MPlayer. So the channel blocked comes
from VDR itself?

Rene



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