[vdr] Re: VDR0.97 with extension ...

[Tobias <tobschle@gmx.de>]

Am Donnerstag, 15. November 2001 18:04 schrieben Sie:
> Hi,
>
> today i compiled VDR0.97 with the latest MPlayer feature.
> It compiled without problems and VDR seems to work.
> But when i choose MPlayer from the Mainmenu and select an AVI from my
> Harddisk only a black screen happens for a second an then i'm back in VDR.
>
> /var/log/messages tells the following
> Nov 14 17:57:34 linux vdr[17200]: starting MPlayer with file
> /home/martin/movies/6thSample.avi Nov 14 17:57:34 linux vdr[17215]: mplayer
> thread started (pid=17215) Nov 14 17:57:34 linux vdr[17215]: ERROR: exec
> failed for mplayer.sh: (2) No such file or directory
>
> So it seems VDR could not find mplayer.sh !?
>
> But i wrote mplayer.sh containing the following:
> #!/bin/bash
> mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes $1 -framedrop
>
> And i'm sure made it executable - and calling mplayer.sh
> /home/martin/movies/6thSample.avi works fine.
>
> I put the mplayer.sh script into my VDR home Dir and also tried it in the
> /video0 directory - both had the same result (see above)
>
>
> Any idea what i made wrong ?
>
> Martin.

did you execute vdr with the -M /path/to/mplayer.sh ?
to be sure you should also set /path/to/mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes $1 
-framedrop

to the -framedrop option: I didn't really work for me. it seems that it drops 
ever frame when I use it.

tobi