STILL having problems with VLC!! HEEELP! (Again..)

[katmac]

Hi again! After HUGE problems trying to get .mov files created by my camcorder to play at ALL, I can now SEE the video as well as hearing it. (No I've no idea what I did either, sorry). But, not without problems as the video playback is choppy. The audio seems fine, (always has been though), here's the error messages I'm getting.

QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 42.0 failed with error code 8:
BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes


and the second I'm getting is

[00000442] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

I'm thinking that something could be changed under the convert/save option, but I don't know what to change them TO. I've tried several different codecs etc., but still end up with choppy video and eventually, the playback will just freeze, then stops all together!!

Please note that I'm a COMPLETE Newbie, so if there are any fixes out there, please be GENTLE with me!!

K

[sarlacii]

Hi katmac

You know, vlc media player is my favorite in windoze, but the linux version gives me no end of hell. I know that it's probably to do with the selected output device etc. etc. but trying to get that sorted is painful.

My suggestion is to look at "mplayer"... it has a gui called "gmplayer", and should be available in your repositories as a standard download. Mplayer supports tons of formats, including movs. And I find that it's video and audio output just work.

The only issue I have ever come across is an audio lag issue with some DVD's (no idea why) but playing them in "xine" solved the problems. However, xine does not support the same number of formats as mplayer, and mplayer is faster to load, and easier to use, IMHO.

May the Force be with you.

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

Seems like a graphic card issue? Are you running compiz? there have been quite a few reports on vlc, totem hanging when playing videos in compiz, and nvidia graphic cards. do you have nvidia graphic card as well?

[katmac]

Something came up, sorry for the delay there!

As for your questions, I'm sorry, but I'll have to reply with a VERY 'Newbie'

huh?

Where would I go to try and see if those things are on the computer?

If you're referring to GNOME-MPLAYER, someone walked me through the installation of that one last weekend, but it's not playing them either.

I think that the sheer size of the files may be partly to blame, one I have that's only 30 mins long is 1.05 GB!!!!

[katmac]

I tried the same file with gnome-mplayer (properly this time!!) and the file that giving me problems looks like everyone is moving about under-water! Here's the error message I got if anyone can tell me where to plug in all the suggestions given, (like the -autosync option, if I try to enter that in the Terminal page, it tells me that it's an unknown), perhaps I can change something? ANY help is GREATLY appreciated!

Here's what I got.....

************************************************
ERROR: **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
ERROR: ************************************************
ERROR:
ERROR: Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
ERROR: - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
ERROR: - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
ERROR: - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
ERROR: - Slow video output
ERROR: - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
ERROR: - Slow CPU
ERROR: - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
ERROR: e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
ERROR: - Broken file
ERROR: - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
ERROR: - Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
ERROR: - Try -cache 8192.
ERROR: - Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
ERROR: - Try -nocache.
ERROR: Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
ERROR: If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

[katmac]

anyone have ANY ideas?

[Rubberman]

It's the weekend, weather is nice (finally), and people are out and about. Patience!

Let's go back to your earlier postings when reed9 posted this:

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC playback is too slow

You can speed up the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC playback by disabling loop filter for H.264 decoding. To do this go to Tools -> Preferences... (set Show Settings to All) and Input / Codecs -> Other codecs -> FFmpeg and in the drop-down box for Skip the loop filter for H.264 decoding change it to All. Remember to press Save to save VLC settings and restart VLC after that to make sure changes are enabled.

Can you try that with VLC?

[katmac]

Love to, but MY tools, etc. doesn't HAVE an option for show settings to all and when I DO bring up Preferences, I can't view the BOTTOM of the page.
Arrrrgh! This thing is gonna FLY, I'm telling you..

[katmac]

I think I've had this thing up to my EYEBALLS at THIS stage of the game....any ideas regarding the error messages I was getting in the gnome-mplayer?

[katmac]

The reason I'm asking about gnome-mplayer is at least it gives you options in the Terminal window like these...

Help Options:
-?, --help Show help options
--help-all Show all help options
--help-gtk Show GTK+ Options

GTK+ Options
--class=CLASS Program class as used by the window manager
--name=NAME Program name as used by the window manager
--screen=SCREEN X screen to use
--gdk-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to set
--gdk-no-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to unset
--sync Make X calls synchronous
--gtk-module=MODULES Load additional GTK+ modules
--g-fatal-warnings Make all warnings fatal
--gtk-debug=FLAGS GTK+ debugging flags to set
--gtk-no-debug=FLAGS GTK+ debugging flags to unset

Application Options:
--window=WID Window to embed in
-w, --width=X Width of window to embed in
-h, --height=Y Height of window to embed in
--controlid=CID Unique DBUS controller id
--playlist File Argument is a playlist
-v, --verbose Show more output on the console
--reallyverbose Show even more output on the console
--fullscreen Start in fullscreen mode
--softvol Use mplayer software volume control
--mixer Mixer to use
--volume Set initial volume percentage
--showcontrols=[0|1] Show the controls in window
--autostart=[0|1] Autostart the media default to 1, set to 0 to load but don't play
--disablecontextmenu Disable popup menu on right click
--disablefullscreen Disable fullscreen options in browser mode
--loop Play all files on the playlist forever
-q, --quit_on_complete Quit application when last file on playlist is played
--random Play items on playlist in random order
--cache Set cache size
--forcecache Force cache usage on streaming sites
--disabledeinterlace Disable the deinterlace filter
--disableframedrop Don't skip drawing frames to better keep sync
--disableass Use the old subtitle rendering system
--disableembeddedfonts Don't use fonts embedded on matroska files
--vertical Use Vertical Layout
--showplaylist Start with playlist open
--showdetails Start with details visible
--rpname=NAME Real Player Name
--rpconsole=CONSOLE Real Player Console ID
--rpcontrols=Control Name,... Real Player Console Controls
--subtitle=FILENAME Subtitle file for first media file
--tvdevice=DEVICE TV device name
--tvdriver=DRIVER TV driver name (v4l|v4l2)
--tvinput=INPUT TV input name
--tvwidth=WIDTH Width of TV input
--tvheight=HEIGHT Height of TV input
--tvfps=FPS Frames per second from TV input
--single_instance Only allow one instance
--replace_and_play Put single instance mode into replace and play mode
--new_instance Ignore single instance preference for this instance
--keep_on_top Keep window on top
--load_tracks_from_gpod Load all tracks from media player using gpod
--disable_cover_art_fetch Don't fetch new cover art images
--display=DISPLAY X display to use

[user@localhost home]$ gnome-mplayer --help-all