Hi Hans,
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:07:55 +1300 Richard Scobie <r.scobie at clear.net.nz> wrote:
I don't use it for DVD images. In fact, I don't use the DVD player plugin anymore, because this can easily be covered with the mplayer plugin, which I am using now.
OK... I am not sure if this will work for me, as I am only viewing via the output of my Nexus card, not a VGA monitor - or am I misunderstanding how the mplayer plugin operates?
The first message about IMDCT is coming from liba52 and prior to my recompiling liba52 with djbfft support, I was getting:
No accelerated IMDCT transform found. (and a segfault)
What does "prior to" mean here. Is the problem gone?
No. Initially I compiled liba52 without djbfft support and got the segfault and the message "No accelerated IMDCT transform found".
Googling for this message and vdr, I found a post on the vdr list from someone who was seeing this message trying to play mp3 and it was suggested that adding djbfft support would fix it. Sadly, it has not for me.
Apologies for breaking the thread. If any list maintainer is reading, there seems to be a problem that although I can post to the list, I am not receiving mail from it (have checked junk filtering etc). This may be because I was removed from the list because of an overflowing mailbox in the past.
Regards,
Richard
Hi,
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:47:24 +1300 Richard Scobie r.scobie@clear.net.nz wrote:
I don't use it for DVD images. In fact, I don't use the DVD player plugin anymore, because this can easily be covered with the mplayer plugin, which I am using now.
OK... I am not sure if this will work for me, as I am only viewing via the output of my Nexus card, not a VGA monitor - or am I misunderstanding how the mplayer plugin operates?
The mplayer plugin doesn't do much more than offering a filebrowser plus a very clever passthrough of remote control codes. Mplayer itself then allows to output via mpegpes device, i.e. the full featured card. I don't have installed a VGA monitor either. This obviously works only for formats that works on that card. If you know bash scripting a little, dig through the mplayer.sh file that the mplayer plugin calls. This script implies a conversion step for formats that don't match, which is likely to be too slow on our poor 200MHz machines. Thus I disabled that functionality and am left with all sorts of MPEG(2)s, DVD and (S)VCD. That's quite sufficient for me. If I happen to get my hands on some DivX's and stuff, I recode that on a better machine to MPEG.
No. Initially I compiled liba52 without djbfft support and got the segfault and the message "No accelerated IMDCT transform found".
IMHO segfaulting doesn't indicate a wrong processor instruction set (e.g. no MMX) as this has its own signal. It's mostly due to faulty software or the compiler doing weird things. What optimization flags do you use? OTOH, it indicates that something "accelerated" is missing and that seems to be a runtime error. So maybe the liba52 is determining processor caps dynamically at runtime? Is there a relevant flag to "configure"? It seems to spit out that runtime error and die miserably...
-hwh (also CC to sender because of his mail receive issue)
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Hans-Werner Hilse -
Richard Scobie