[vdr] Re: error using mplayer and dxr3

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Seppo Ingalsuo wrote:
> Oliver Brandt wrote:

>> I'm using (actually trying to use) vdr with the dxr3 and mplayer plugin.
>> After selecting a movie I get the error message shown below. I've looked
>> through the instructions, but I'm not really shure how to apply the
>> mplayer.sh script. I've copied the example file to various locations
>> like /video/plugins/mplayer.sh and others but it did not help. 

>> I'd also
>> like to know whether I have to change the OPTS="-vo mpegpes" to OPTS="-vo
>> dxr3"? I have atendency to overlook (-read) the most obvious, so please forgive if this is a stupid quesion and I think this is. 
>> Thank you very much for your help!
>> Oliver
> 
> I tried both -vo possibilities and so far the only effect has been 
> obviously DXR3 S/PDIF audio sample rate change for the live DVB-T stream 
> which continued to show on TV (audio became sloooooow) or vdr freezes 
> depending on setup.
> 
> I even tried to replace whole mplayer.sh with a simple script like this
> 
> "mplayer -vo dxr3 -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma some_video_clip.avi"
> 
> but no success. It is a bit surprising because VDR OSD informs about 
> releasing DXR3 when mplayer plugin is started.
> 
> I wonder which approach should be taken for DXR3: -vo mpegpes or -vo 
> dxr3? I haven't seen mplayer plugin in action, is there loss of VDR 
> based OSD if mplayer.sh script uses dxr3 output directly? My LCD display 
> shows a progress bar for mplayer plugin.

Guys,

I think, the first thing to do is to get mplayer playing a video on the
dxr3 directly, like

killall vdr; mplayer -vo *whatever* -ao *somethingelse* /some/video

unless this isn't working, anything else is a waste of time.

Cheers,
Juri



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