[vdr] Re: mplayer.sh 0.8.1

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Martin Åkerström wrote:
> I had some problems with mplayer.sh, it could take up to 30-40 seconds 
> before a movie started and some movies didn't start at all,
> instead mplayer generated png images of each frame which wasn't at all 
> what I wanted =)
> The problem is in the identify section in getvidxy, so I changed
> TEMP1=`$MPLAYER -identify "$FILE" 2>&1 | grep -i -e "^ID_"`
> to the example in the midentify script that comes with mplayer 
> (TOOLS/midentify)
> looks like this:
> mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify "$@" 2>/dev/null |
>         grep "^ID" |
>         sed -e 's/[`\\!$"]/\\&/g' |
>         sed -e '/^ID_FILENAME/ { 
> s/^ID_FILENAME=\(.*\)/ID_FILENAME="\1"/g; }'
> 
> now it works without any problem at all...I think that just setting -vo 
> null -ao null would have solved the problem for me.

Yeah, known problem. mplayer.sh-0.8.2 will address it. Seems, that it
only occurres with a CVS version of mplayer. I have the release version
of mplayer (0.90) and I don't have this problem. Also TOOLS/midentify shows

[...]
mplayer -identify "$@" 2>/dev/null |
        grep "^ID" |
[...]

Cheers,
Juri



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