On 18-12-2011 14:15, Mauro Santos wrote:
On 18-12-2011 04:10, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote:
When I play a video with mplayer2 (also happens with tvtime)
MPlayer2 2.0-379-ge3f5043 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team 162 audio & 361 video codecs
Can you give mplayer (just mplayer, not mplayer2) a try? I've had problems with mplayer2 before, not with video playback but with subtitles. I'm not familiar with tvtime so I can't provide any comments about it.
As for mplayer try using a different video out driver, use 'mplayer -vo driver video_file'
You can get a list of drivers with 'mplayer -vo help'. Some that may be worth trying are: xv (most probably the one mplayer auto selects), x11, sdl, gl, gl2, gl_nosw. Some of these might not have any form of acceleration so they may be slow or cpu intensive but will do for testing as you may be hitting some bug in the drivers.
Also try with vlc and check if the same happens, I think vlc will also try to use xv and if the problem is the same it might help to determine what the problem is.
Phone calls and lunch got in the way of writing a reply and this was already suggested and tried, sorry for the noise as this as nothing to add. As for tv time, if it uses mplayer as a backend then it might read ~/.mplayer/config. If it does then you can set the video out driver in the config file with a line: vo=driver -- Mauro Santos