[vdr] Re: mplayer and mpeg4 ?!

[ma.hoff@t-online.de (Martin Hoffmann)]

Hi,

the mplayer.sh version 0.0.4 was written by me - and should work - however it 
might help if you send me the console output of the script - maybe scaling 
goes wrong ...

However this is quite an old version and the new recommended method is as 
follows. 
Use my patch 
http://ma.hoff.bei.t-online.de/patches/mplayer/dvbscale_patch.diff
to patch mplayer cvs and reduce mplayer.sh to one line:
exec /usr/local/bin/mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -afm 9 -lircconf 
/video0/.lircrc -framedrop -vop 
lavc=2,expand=0:576:-1:-1:1,scale=0:0,dvbscale "$1" </dev/null ;
(be sure to change -lircconf *** to your needs and drom -afm 9 if you do not 
like AC3 Audio via DVBs Card on SPDIF !)

This should do the job - or at least does it for me !

There are at least two advantages over the mplayer.sh 0.0.4 - this one scales 
every avi to full screen  (or to full x and black bars - in case of cinema 
format) - and treats those avis created from dvb recordings (e.g. 480x576) 
which have in fact wrong aspect ratio specially by forcing them 4:3 full 
screen !

So, i use this patched mplayer and simple mplayer.sh myself and have not found 
any avi that could not be displayed !

However, i do not know if mplayer.sh must be modified for mpeg playback ...

Martin.

Am Freitag, 30. August 2002 23:45 schrieb Otto Brandstätter:
> Am Freitag, 30. August 2002 18:28 schrieben Sie:
> > Otto Brandstätter wrote:
> > > Good afternoon list !
> > >
> > > I have the following problem:
> > > when using mplayer with vdr everything is fine, except when I try to
> > > play mpeg4 files I created from vdr-files using mencoder.
> > > I hear the sound, but my tv screen stays black.
> > > It _seems_ as I could also seek within the files, but there is no
> > > picture. I do not get error messages in console nor in
> > > /var/log/messages I am using mplayer 0.90pre6-2.96, but I also tried
> > > the cvs version. Also installed divx4linux501.
> > >
> > > Did anyone have similar problems ? Any hints ?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot !
> > >
> > > Otto
> >
> > What does your mplayer.sh look like ?
>
> My mplayer.sh is: (this is a script i found somewhere in the internet...)
> i suppose, this is not the problem...
>
> thanks for your help !
>
> Otto
>