~ I was trying to play a DVD from my core duo box, but got a message I really don't know how to interpret ~ How can I troubleshoot this message? ~ Thank you lbrtchx ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ knoppix at Microknoppix:~$ sudo mplayer /media/sr0/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB MPlayer SVN-r29142-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Playing /media/sr0/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB. MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s) [VO_SDL] Using driver: x11. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) 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, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== [AO SDL] Samplerate: 48000Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le AO: [sdl] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [sdl] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12 A: 0.9 V: 10.3 A-V: -9.412 ct: 0.086 302/302 12% 90% 0.7% 265 0 ************************************************ **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! **** ************************************************ Possible reasons, problems, workarounds: - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA. - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start. - Slow video output - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop! - Slow CPU - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts, e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all. - Broken file - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0. - Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc) - Try -cache 8192. - Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file? - Try -nocache. Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips. If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html. A: 1.2 V: 0.6 A-V: 0.542 ct: 0.110 311/309 11% 90% 0.7% 271 0 demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate. A: 2.5 V: 2.2 A-V: 0.309 ct: 0.271 350/347 10% 88% 0.7% 303 0 Exiting... (End of file) ~