Mplayer cannot play EVO file

[Pitou]

Hello,

I made HD-DVD on a dual layer DVD (3xDVD) but I can't play the resulting EVO file with mplayer. (It works on my Toshiba HD-DVD player)

I get this error message:

Playing Temp/HVDVD_TS/EVOB001.EVO.
MPEG-PS file format detected.

Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8279462 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.

MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.

It seems it cannot "demux" the streams.

Any idea?

Pitou!

[nm]

Are you able to play other EVO files? Which version (SVN revision) of MPlayer are you using? If it's not a very recent one, I'd suggest building the latest first.

If the latest MPlayer SVN revision fails too, try to cut a distributable piece that works with some other player so that MPlayer developers can reproduce the problem. Then report a bug (http://web.njit.edu/all_topics/Prog_Lang_Docs/html/mplayer/bugreports.html).

[Gokumon]

Are you using -demuxer lavf? Otherwise if you aren't you will have issues.

[Pitou]

Gokumon,

Seems better now, but now it thinks it's a mpeg2 stream. How can I force the codec? It's a h264 video stream.

manager@univers /media/cdrom2/HVDVD_TS $ mplayer -demuxer lavf -nosound EVOB001.EVO
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
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 EVOB001.EVO.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [mpg2] 0x0 0bpp 90000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window.
GNOME screensaver disabled
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...

[nm]

MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
That's a relatively old version. Update to latest SVN.

[yeye69]

Gokumon,

Seems better now, but now it thinks it's a mpeg2 stream. How can I force the codec? It's a h264 video stream.

manager@univers /media/cdrom2/HVDVD_TS $ mplayer -demuxer lavf -nosound EVOB001.EVO
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
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 EVOB001.EVO.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [mpg2] 0x0 0bpp 90000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window.
GNOME screensaver disabled
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...

try next:
mplayer -demuxer lavf -vc ffh264

[Pitou]

Just tried try the -vc option but get no result.

I'll try compiling mplayer from the svn...

Here are below the log:

manager@univers ~/Extra $ mplayer -demuxer lavf -vc ffh264 -nosound EVOB001.EVO
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
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 EVOB001.EVO.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [mpg2] 0x0 0bpp 90000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window.
GNOME screensaver disabled
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x3267706D.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================


Exiting... (End of file)

[Pitou]

ok Just compiled from the svn and it works.

Thanks for the answers.

Pitou!