~ Some time ago I was getting "**** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****" kinds of error messages from mplayer. ~ With your help I made it work but not in a smart way. It does start fine but then it just stops after some sound ~ On your documentation I found some explanations ~ http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-telecine.html ~ but I couldn't solve my problems. Why do these errors happen? How can I troubleshoot these errors? ~ thanks lbrtchx ~ $ mplayer -vo x11 VIDEO_TS.VOB MPlayer SVN-r29142-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team 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 VIDEO_TS.VOB. MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== 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 OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Failed to initialize audio driver 'oss' Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. Audio: no sound 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: [x11] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12 [swscaler @ 0x4406c580]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb565 special converter demux: File doesn't contain the selected audio or video stream. V: 0.0 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 Exiting... (End of file) knoppix at Microknoppix:/media/sr0/VIDEO_TS$ mplayer -vo x11 VIDEO_TS.VOB MPlayer SVN-r29142-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team 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 VIDEO_TS.VOB. MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== 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: [x11] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12 [swscaler @ 0x4406c580]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb565 special converter A: 0.8 V: 0.6 A-V: 0.153 ct: 0.122 311/309 12% 24% 0.7% 0 0 demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate. A: 2.2 V: 2.2 A-V: 0.032 ct: 0.275 350/347 11% 21% 0.7% 0 0 Exiting... (End of file) ~