[vdr] Re: Problems playing NTSC-material with mplayer-plugin on FF-dvb-card

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Harri Kukkonen wrote:
> I can't get mplayer-plugin (or is it called just MP3-plugin now?) to 
> play NTSC-based material (29.97 or 23.976 fps) on my FF DVB-card. More 
> specifically the problem is with Xvid etc. files which need to be 
> encoded into MPEG1 for the FF-card.
> Playing ntsc mpeg-files works, and also playing PAL (25fps) xvid and 
> divx files works.
> If I set NTSC="false" in mplayer.sh.conf, then the playback works since 
> everything is transformed to PAL. But I'd rather play these in their 
> original speed since my tv is NTSC-capable.

> The problem obviously is with mplayer and not the plugin directly, but I 
> was hoping someone would know a way to fix this issue.

> [mpeg1video @ 0x847b880]removing common factors from framerate
> [mpeg1video @ 0x847b880]MPEG1/2 doesnt support 2997/100 fps

Hi,

this is caused by a change in mplayer version 1.0pre4 (and later
versions). It only accepts the values 24, 25 and 30.
To make the mplayer.sh script work again with NTSC you have to replace
the occurrence of 29.970 with 30 in line 382 and in line 542.

Cheers,
Juri