SMplayer problem - no video

[dimmutal]

I was in Gutsy and yesterday upgraded to 8.04. So fas so good, everything is great. Even in my laptop (Toshiba Tecra A4) everything is now perfect i including wireless lan, ATI drivers etc. I noticed though that the smplayer won't just play anything. I can't even hear something playing in the background. Mplayer works ok and the mplayer mozilla plugin works too. But SMplayer won't. Any ideas??

PS: i mentioned mplayer mozilla plugin because i use it to listen to the e-radio. I installed it just because my vlc plugin isn't working as it did in gutsy. Any ideas for that too??

[Rog131]

Re: SMplayer problem - no video

Any errors in the SMPlayer > Options > View logs: MPlayer / SMPlayer


SMPlayer settings ?
SMPlayer > Options > Preferences > Output drivers: Video (xv/x11/gl/gl2...)


MPlayer (SMPlayer) output drivers (Xorg X11 and Transparency ) :

If you have some difficulties with MPlayer (transparency, bad display...), try the following option:

mplayer -vo x11 <inputfile>

Notice that you cannot resize the window in this mode by default, to use software scaling to be able to resize as normal add -zoom to the commandline entry (or add zoom=yes to your mplayer.conf), for example:

mplayer -vo x11 -zoom <inputfile>

For me only the following option works:

mplayer -vo gl2 <inputfile>

But then again it can crash your X. (Using NVidia + 6.8.2 {Betelgeuse 20:01, 8 Mar 2005 (GMT)})

You probably have to play around a bit with MPlayer's video output option. NOTE: using -vo x11 and -zoom dramatically slow down MPlayer! -vo xv will provide best preformance when working!

[dimmutal]

Re: SMplayer problem - no video

My MPlayer log is clear. My SMplayer log has as follows:

Translator::loadCatalog: can't load qt_en_US from /usr/share/smplayer/translations
Translator::loadCatalog: can't load qt_en_US from /usr/share/qt4/translations
Translator::loadCatalog: successfully loaded smplayer_en_US from /usr/share/smplayer/translations
This is SMPlayer v. 0.6.0rc2 (SVN 834) running on Linux
Qt v. 4.3.3
 * application path: '/usr/bin'
 * data path: '/usr/share/smplayer'
 * translation path: '/usr/share/smplayer/translations'
 * doc path: '/usr/share/doc/packages/smplayer'
 * themes path: '/usr/share/smplayer/themes'
 * shortcuts path: '/usr/share/smplayer/shortcuts'
 * smplayer home path: '/home/mimis/.smplayer'
 * ini path: '/home/mimis/.smplayer'
 * current path: '/home/mimis'
main: files_to_play: count: 0
main: changed working directory to app path
main: current directory: /usr/bin
Recents::load
Core::Core: file_settings: '/home/mimis/.smplayer/smplayer_files.ini'
MplayerProcess::init_rx
MplayerLayer::allowClearingBackground: 0
Preferences::monitor_aspect_double
 warning: monitor_aspect couldn't be parsed!
 monitor_aspect set to 0
Playlist::setModified: 0
Playlist::loadSettings
Playlist::addItem: '/media/sdc1/Documentaries/H.Mixani.Tou.Xronou-Oi.Ellinotourkikes.Kriseis(24-3-2007).TVRip.XviD.avi'
Playlist::setModified: 0
name: 'H.Mixani.Tou.Xronou-Oi.Ellinotourkikes.Kriseis(24-3-2007).TVRip.XviD.avi'
Style name: 'oxygen'
Style class name: 'OxygenStyle'
BaseGui::initializeMenus
BaseGui::initializeMenus
BaseGui::updateRecents
BaseGui::updateWidgets
BaseGui::updateWidgets
BaseGui::updateRecents
PlaylistDock::hideEvent: isFloating: 0
 undocked
PlaylistDock::showEvent: isFloating: 1
PlaylistDock::hideEvent: isFloating: 1
BaseGui::initializeMenus
BaseGui::updateRecents
BaseGui::updateWidgets
BaseGuiPlus::loadConfig
DefaultGui::createStatusBar
DefaultGui::createActions
DefaultGui::createControlWidget
TimeSlider::setDragDelay: 100
DefaultGui::createControlWidgetMini
TimeSlider::setDragDelay: 100
TimeSlider::setDragDelay: 100
BaseGui::initializeMenus
BaseGui::updateRecents
DefaultGui::updateWidgets
BaseGui::updateWidgets
DefaultGui::loadConfig
DefaultGui::updateWidgets
BaseGui::updateWidgets
BaseGui::showEvent
BaseGui::loadActions
ActionsEditor::loadFromConfig
BaseGui::initializeMenus
BaseGui::updateRecents
DefaultGui::updateWidgets
BaseGui::updateWidgets
BaseGui::fileOpen
BaseGui::openFile: '/media/sdc1/Documentaries/Fakeloi.Israhlino.Ypobryxio-Fakelos.Kreas.170407.bwgt.avi'
Core::openFile: '/media/sdc1/Documentaries/Fakeloi.Israhlino.Ypobryxio-Fakelos.Kreas.170407.bwgt.avi'
Core::playNewFile: '/media/sdc1/Documentaries/Fakeloi.Israhlino.Ypobryxio-Fakelos.Kreas.170407.bwgt.avi'
Core::saveMediaInfo
Core::checkHaveSettingsSaved: group_name: '_media_sdc1_Documentaries_Fakeloi_Israhlino_Ypobryxio-Fakelos_Kreas_170407_bwgt_avi_418863104'
Core::playNewFile: volume: 100, old_volume: 100
Core::initPlaying
Core::startMplayer
Core::startMplayer: setting working directory to '/home/mimis/.smplayer/screenshots'
DesktopInfo::desktop_size: primary screen: 0
DesktopInfo::desktop_size: size of primary screen: 1280 x 1024
DesktopInfo::desktop_size: size of screen: 1280 x 1024
MplayerVersion::isMplayerAtLeast: comparing 24924 with 24722
Core::startMplayer: command: '/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo gl2 -ao pulse -zoom -nokeepaspect -framedrop -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 37748750 -colorkey 0x020202 -monitoraspect 1.25 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -volume 100 -nocache -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -channels 2 /media/sdc1/Documentaries/Fakeloi.Israhlino.Ypobryxio-Fakelos.Kreas.170407.bwgt.avi'
MplayerLayer::playingStarted
BaseGui::calculateDiff: diff_size: 0, 0
BaseGui::calculateDiff: diff_size set to: 0, 123
MplayerProcess::init_rx
Playlist::setModified: 0
Playlist::addFiles
Playlist::addItem: '/media/sdc1/Documentaries/Fakeloi.Israhlino.Ypobryxio-Fakelos.Kreas.170407.bwgt.avi'
name: 'Fakeloi.Israhlino.Ypobryxio-Fakelos.Kreas.170407.bwgt.avi'
 * latest_dir: ''
MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team'
MplayerVersion::mplayerVersion: MPlayer version found: 1.0rc2
MplayerProcess::parseLine: MPlayer SVN: 24722
MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)'
MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1'
MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Compiled with runtime CPU detection.'
MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Unknown option on the command line: -volume'
MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Error parsing option on the command line: -volume'
MyProcess::procFinished
MyProcess::procFinished: Bytes available: 0
MplayerProcess::processFinished
Core::processFinished
Core::processFinished: we_are_restarting: 0
Core::processFinished: play has finished!
 exit_status: 0
MplayerLayer::playingStopped
BaseGui::showLog

You can see only the following warning i think:

warning: monitor_aspect couldn't be parsed

[dimmutal]

Re: SMplayer problem - no video

Any news on Smplayer and Hardy?? It still doesn't work under any preferences for the video and audio drivers.

[Guest]

Re: SMplayer problem - no video

The problem is this:

MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Unknown option on the command line: -volume'
MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Error parsing option on the command line: -volume'

The official mplayer doesn't have the -volume option, so it will fail.

Just go to Preferences -> General -> Audio and set to "No" the option "Change volume just before playing".