video drivers for mplayer

[shaggyman87]

Hi, I was wondering where can I get a hold of video drivers for mplayer. My computer has the X11 and the gl driver, but with X11 i can't fullscreen and gl lags. Where can I find and acquire the other video drivers for mplayer such as xvidix.

Also once installed will mplayer automatically locate the drivers or will I have to tell it where they are located?

Thanks.

[iwanabeguru]

use "-vo Xv" parameter or set Xv from gui if you are using gmplayer

the gl are lagging because you haven't 3d support., maybe try gl2 output

[shaggyman87]

Thanks for the reply, but the problem isn't that I haven't tired Xv, gl2, or any of the other drivers on the video list. The problem is I can't find them either on my computer or on the internet. I did a "find" search for all of them and the only ones that came back were X11 and gl.

Whenever I try to use Xv, gl2, or any of the other drivers besdies X11 and gl I get a -vo output error or mplayer crashes on me.

[Juan Pablo]

Have you tried installing your video card drivers? They will help you with the GL output problem, and if the drivers support, Xv will work nicely (IMO the fastest output for video)

[apsel]

First of all, you don't need any proprietary binary drivers to play videos using XVideo. The XVideo extension is probably already installed on your machine, you just need to enable it.

Open the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and make sure the "Module" section has a line that says

Load "extmod"

That's the line that enables XVideo. If it's not there or it's commented out, put it in but make sure you put it in the section called "Module". If the section is not there, create it so that it looks like

Section "Module"
        Load    "extmod"
EndSection

Then restart the X server.

Once the XVideo extension is loaded, run MPlayer like this:

mplayer -vo xv file.avi

If it still doesn't work, post the output you get from MPlayer.

[shaggyman87]

I looked for etc/X11/xorg.conf but I don't have it.

Also I was able to find xv online, but it was weird because a lot of its dependencies were old and came from Woody. I installed xv, but this is the message mplayer gives me.

Playing Memento.avi.

AVI file formate detected.

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Its seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

xvinfo gives me

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present

Now a word on my computer. It's a laptop and using ati radeon x700 card. When setting up X11 I had trouble when I selected the ati, radeon, or any combination of these cards to use with X11 so I just used Vesa to avoid the hassle.

I'm willing to use other video drivers, but as I said before, twice, I don't know where to find them. Are they all proprietary and thats why I can't find them?

[jens]

I looked for etc/X11/xorg.conf but I don't have it.

Also I was able to find xv online, but it was weird because a lot of its dependencies were old and came from Woody. I installed xv, but this is the message mplayer gives me.

Playing Memento.avi.

AVI file formate detected.

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Its seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

xvinfo gives me

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present

Now a word on my computer. It's a laptop and using ati radeon x700 card. When setting up X11 I had trouble when I selected the ati, radeon, or any combination of these cards to use with X11 so I just used Vesa to avoid the hassle.

I'm willing to use other video drivers, but as I said before, twice, I don't know where to find them. Are they all proprietary and thats why I can't find them?

Woody...?
If this is your desktop system, do consider an upgrade.
As for your problem, it's most likely not what you seem to think.
All these drivers should have been already configured with your mplayer.

Please start mplayer from the CLi with a legal file and post the full output.

[shaggyman87]

I'm running Sarge. I found a version of xv online. In installing it I came across dependencies that were unavaliable. I searched for them online and the only hits that came pack where packages for Woody. For example one of the packages was lib6g. http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/libs/xlib6g

Anyway I have since removed xv because it was slowing my computer down.

In running mplayer from the command line I can tell its using x11. I know because it doesn't full screen properly. In running mplayer -vo gl in slows down considerable. These are things are already know and have already stated. In running mplayer -vo xv Momento.avi this is the output.

/mnt/Downloads/videos# mplayer -vo xv Memento.avi
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping:
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing Memento.avi.
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [DIV3] 640x272 24bpp 25.000 fps 743.6 kbps (90.8 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
================================================== ========================
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.


Exiting... (End of file)

Invoking xvinfo

/mnt/Downloads/videos# xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present

This is the output if I use Xv versus xv. I tried it both because I know with computers syntax can bite you in the ass.

/mnt/Downloads/videos# mplayer -vo Xv Memento.avi
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping:
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing Memento.avi.
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [DIV3] 640x272 24bpp 25.000 fps 743.6 kbps (90.8 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
================================================== ========================
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.


Exiting... (End of file)

Agian if I can get xv to work great, if not then I'll wouldn't mind using another driver it's just I don't know where to get them or how to intialize them.

[apsel]

To get XVideo (the correct option for MPlayer is -vo xv) working, you need the Load "extmod" line in your xorg.conf or XF86Config-4 like I explained above. Look in /etc/X11 to see which files you have there.

[shaggyman87]

From my etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.

Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "xtt"
EndSection