I have downloaded several Bluray encoded H.264 movies in .mkv format. On all of them, I get the same error when playing with mplayer. MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team The error is: Too many video packets in the buffer: (153 in 8424853 bytes). Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. A: 690.4 V: 684.3 A-V: 6.128 ct: 5.330 2897/2897 98% 10% 1.2% 1434 0 48% Too many video packets in the buffer: (155 in 8413150 bytes). Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. Note that these errors always start a few minutes into the movie. The output from starting mplayer is: m Madagaskar.mkv MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ (Family: 15, Model: 75, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing Madagaskar.mkv. [mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0 [mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AC3), -aid 0, -alang eng [mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 0, -slang eng [mkv] Will play video track 1. Matroska file format detected. VIDEO: [avc1] 1920x1080 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window. GNOME screensaver disabled ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Forced audio codec: mad Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 640.0 kbit/41.67% (ratio: 80000->192000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] Failed to connect to server: Connection refused AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [xv] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12 GNOME screensaver enabled.386 ct: 0.003 16/ 16 151% 21% 3.3% 13 0 Exiting... (Quit) _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users