Hi all, I've encountered a problem playing a specific DVD using mplayer. Other DVDs work fine (so the mplayer installation is ok), and the DVD of interest plays fine on other players (so the DVD itself has not flaws such as scratches). No, the problem is as follows. The DVD contains several tracks, out if which only the first makes problems. If I play the first one, it would say user at host ~$ mplayer -vo gl2 dvd://1 MPlayer SVN-r29975-snapshot-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Playing dvd://1. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access libdvdcss debug: opening target `/dev/dvd' libdvdcss debug: using libc for access libdvdcss debug: disc is unscrambled libdvdcss debug: using CSS key cache dir: /home/media/.dvdcss/BLUBB There are 3 titles on this DVD. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000136 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x0000018d libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00000225 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x000b24af libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x000b24e8 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x000c74cc libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x000c7505 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 3 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: aid: 128. number of audio channels on disk: 1. subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: number of subtitles on disk: 1 MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 7700.0 kbps (962.5 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try appending the scale filter to your filter list, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Unsupported PixelFormat -1 Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]invalid frame_pred_frame_dct Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. [swscaler @ 0x8878780]using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr24 special converter VO: [gl2] 720x480 => 854x480 BGR 24-bit [gl2] You have OpenGL >= 1.2 capable drivers, GOOD (16bpp and BGR is ok!) [gl2] antialiasing off [gl2] bilinear linear [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 16 9 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]Warning MVs not available [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]concealing 945 DC, 945 AC, 945 MV errors [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]invalid frame_pred_frame_dct ??% ??,?% 0 0 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]invalid frame_pred_frame_dct ??% ??,?% 0 0 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 0 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 1 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 2 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 3 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 4 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 5 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 6 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 7 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 8 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 9 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 10 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 11 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 12 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 13 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 14 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 15 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 16 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 17 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 18 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 19 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 20 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 21 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 22 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 23 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 24 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 25 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 26 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 27 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 28 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 13 29 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]concealing 1350 DC, 1350 AC, 1350 MV errors [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]invalid frame_pred_frame_dct ??% ??,?% 0 0 <and so on...> A: 0.6 V: 0.6 A-V: 0.048 ct: 0.014 12/ 10 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit) ======== When I play the second (which displays find), it would say: MPlayer SVN-r29975-snapshot-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Playing dvd://2. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access libdvdcss debug: opening target `/dev/dvd' libdvdcss debug: using libc for access libdvdcss debug: disc is unscrambled libdvdcss debug: using CSS key cache dir: /home/media/.dvdcss/BLUBB There are 3 titles on this DVD. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000136 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x0000018d libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00000225 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x000b24af libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x000b24e8 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x000c74cc libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x000c7505 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 3 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: aid: 128. number of audio channels on disk: 1. number of subtitles on disk: 0 MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 7700.0 kbps (962.5 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try appending the scale filter to your filter list, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Unsupported PixelFormat -1 Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. [swscaler @ 0x8878780]using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr24 special converter VO: [gl2] 720x480 => 720x540 BGR 24-bit [gl2] You have OpenGL >= 1.2 capable drivers, GOOD (16bpp and BGR is ok!) [gl2] antialiasing off [gl2] bilinear linear [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 18 10 [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]Warning MVs not available [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]concealing 900 DC, 900 AC, 900 MV errors <and nothing more> A: 0.5 V: 0.5 A-V: -0.046 ct: 0.012 10/ 10 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit) ======== While the second track plays fine, the first track is displayed as a white-to-black gradient picture with occasional artifacts. As livdvdcss states, the DVD is unscrambled, so the DVD is neither regionised, nor secured with a key. Besides that, I was able to play the DVD earlier on the same machine with mplayer. ======== So, from the init section (until the mpeg2video module starts to print debug stuff on stdout), I can see no difference. For either track, mplayer recognises an MPEG-PS stream in 720x480 (DVD scale & 3:2 aspect). As usual, then mplayer complains that the output (video driver) does not accept the DVD colorspace, and tries to load the 'scale' video filter (why?). Furthermore, mplayer complains that, now, 'scale' does not work with 'mpegpes', and the decoder init fails. If then uses 'ffmpeg' as decoder, which complains about an 'unsupported pixel format -1', which causes mplayer to switch to 'ffmpeg2', So far, both tracks produce equal output. Now, the first track would cause mplayer to print: Starting playback... [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]invalid frame_pred_frame_dct Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. [swscaler @ 0x8878780]using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr24 special converter VO: [gl2] 720x480 => 854x480 BGR 24-bit [gl2] You have OpenGL >= 1.2 capable drivers, GOOD (16bpp and BGR is ok!) [gl2] antialiasing off [gl2] bilinear linear What does the 'invalid frame_pred_frame_dct' from mpeg2video mean? The second track would cause mplayer to print: Starting playback... Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. [swscaler @ 0x8878780]using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr24 special converter VO: [gl2] 720x480 => 720x540 BGR 24-bit [gl2] You have OpenGL >= 1.2 capable drivers, GOOD (16bpp and BGR is ok!) [gl2] antialiasing off [gl2] bilinear linear So, the interesting difference here is that, while in track one, mplayer tries to up-scale the movie (to 854:480 [aspect 16:9]), the second track is scaled to 720x540 (aspect 4:3). I presumed that something goes wrong with the scaling, so I turned off all video filters with -vf-clr, but the up-scaling still happens. I tried several other scalings with '-vf scale', but nothing worked. Even '-vf scale=-1' to preserve the scaling or adding more colorspace filters wouldn't help. ======== The interesting part is that I had to use gl2 as video output since the standard one would crash (not only mplayer, but the entire machine simply stops!). Could gl2 have a problem? And if so, why with the first track only? ======== My DVDCSS_METHOD is set to 'title', and there are not further config files used, no subfont.ttf set, and not profiles set. Sound works fine on either track. I am using the svn export from 05/12/09. Thanks in advance for your help. Cheers, Damon
