> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:32:02 +0200 > Pasi Juppo <pasi.juppo@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I have couple of video clips that fail to work properly via VDR. First >> ones playback is very jerky (23.976fps) via VDR but no problem played >> back on PC. > > When playing back 24 fps video on an FF-card or any other PAL TV-output > device, jerkiness is quite expected. You need to speed up the playback > by a factor of 25/24~=1.0417, which can be done with the -speed option > in MPlayer. Audio pitch will rise slightly, so if that bothers you, use > an external LADSPA filter to compensate > (see: http://mark.santaniello.net/archives/260). > > The NTSC/PAL speed setting should be handled automatically in the > mplayer.sh script, but have you configured NTSC="false" in > mplayer.sh.conf? Yes. The config should be ok. I don't recall have such a problems with previous version (0.9.x). >> Second one does not play sound from the clip but the sound from the >> channel that was being viewed before playback. > > MPlayer probably has problems with the audio codec used in the clip. > Updating to latest SVN could help. If not, try other players and > identify the audio codec. If the codec should be supported, take a look > at the mplayer -v output and perhaps upload a sample somewhere. Strange that it works fine on the server and both have the same setup of codecs. Have to check further. >> I've tried mplayer.sh 0.8.6 and 0.8.7. mplayer itself is version 1.0rc1. >> Haven't tried trunk version because there did not seem to be fixes >> related to audio or jerkiness. > > Did you actually read through the SVN logs from the last 4 months? > Quite an accomplishment. ;) Anyway, most of the codec-related stuff is > in FFmpeg/libavcodec, which is in a separate repository. Sure.. not :-) No, I just checked the ChangeLog. Checking of all files history would have been extreme.. >> Anyone else with similar problems? >> >> Also, there seems to be DVD support in trunk version of the mplayer. Any >> idea whether mplayer plugin will support DVD in the near future? > > Have you tried the current support in mplayer.sh? No, I was under impression that DVD menu navigation is not supported. Have to recheck this too then. Br, Pasi
