I've gone to the web page but can't find where to submit a bug report.
I did, however, see what could be a related open bug: 962.
The file I created was a .avi, and I'm getting no audio.
Here is the command line I used to create it:
$ mencoder dvd://4 -o the_way_c.avi -srate 44100 -oac copy -ovc lavc
-lavcopts acodec=mp3:abitrate=128
-af volnorm -ofps 29.970 -vf-add crop=640:384 -vf-add
scale=320:192
-vf-add unsharp=c4x4:0.3:l5x5:0.5 -ovc lavc
-lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:aspect=320/192:vrc_buf_size=450:vrc_maxrate=1000
-ffourcc FMP4 -force-avi-aspect 1.66666666666667
I personally don't know what all those options mean, but I got them from
playing with the script tablet-encode. tablet-encode failed, but I
adapted its parameters and ran the above command by hand. For instance
I put dvd://4 near the beginning myself.
Version of mplayer on the N800 with OS2007 is, I believe,
1.0rc1-maemo.18.n800. I don't know the best way to determine this
straight off the tablet, but I know where I downloaded it from, which is
the main downloads page under 2007 and Multimedia.
The generated video is 279301758 bytes in size. I won't torture the
whole list by attaching it.
To reiterate: the symptoms are (i) no audio, and (ii) accelerated play
rate. I confirmed (ii) carefully by playing it side-by-side with
mplayer on a regular linux pc.
I'll let you know if I figure out how to submit the bug on the garage
web page, or better still maybe you can give me some tips.
-Will
BTW I discovered from your URL a section that contains the download for
the OS 2008 version of MPlayer. I had sent more than one email asking
for this information and got no responses.
Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On 1 January 2008, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
>
>
>> For the moment I've solved the problem by reverting to OS 2007 and
>> installing MPlayer and Free42 on there.
>>
>> Along the way I dabbled with programming in scratchbox and got some
>> sample code running.
>>
>> Regarding these two programs, I have found the following issues.
>>
>> A) MPlayer is not functioning properly. I installed MPlayer on a
>> regular Linux PC. I created a playable file from a DVD I own using
>> mencoder. I confirmed that I can play the video on the regular PC using
>> mplayer. However, when I run it on the N800 (using MPlayer installed on
>> OS 2007), I get these problems:
>> i) No sound. The Report function says "Audio: no sound". Yet sound
>> comes out fine when I play it on the PC.
>> ii) Seems to play in fast-forward fashion.
>>
>
> You can go to https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mplayer and submit a
> bugreport. This bugreport should include exact mplayer version number,
> audio codec that you tried to use (mencoder commandline should be enough),
> full mplayer output on your desktop PC (for the information about video and
> audio codec, resolution, bitrate, ...).
>
>
