Mplayer and multiple samba shares

chuck.peters

2007-03-31, 04:22 #1

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Subject: Mplayer and multiple samba shares

I don't use windows much, but I am trying to get this working for Mom's machine.

First problem is that viewing recordings seems like it is in slow motion a bit and the sound is horrible. I think this machine just isn't powerful enough or it is that hardware bug (VIA IDE controller) that just makes it suck as a linux box. I added RAM, went from 256MB to 640MB and it made little if any difference. This is a W2k machine with AMD 800 or 900 Mhz using wireless G. It has an old Nvidia card, a TNT model I think. However recordings play just fine with mplayer, can you make it so mplayer is used to view recordings?

Our mythtv setup includes 3 backends, 2 with tuners and those 2 are on all the time. The third backend is my brothers dual boot machine and it isn't running linux all the time. We also have recordings stored on other drives/NFS mounts that we archived with mytharchive.pl. I could add various samba shares, but I don't think mythtvplayer config.xml would allow multiple samba shares or if it would find the recordings that way. Viewing from the samba share made no difference in the slow motion viewing problem. Can you make mythtvplayer work in this situation?

I just tried to subscribe to the announcement mailing list at sourceforge, but I am getting "Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8." Would you please move the lists elsewhere? Or better yet make this part of the official mythtv project.

I noticed both the GPL and lgpl licenses included in the binary package, would you please document what code (or dll) is under whichever license?

Thanks,
Chuck

Mikkel (Administrator) 2007-04-01, 21:07 #2

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Quote by chuck.peters on 2007-03-31, 04:22:
First problem is that viewing recordings seems like it is in slow motion a bit and the sound is horrible. I think this machine just isn't powerful enough or it is that hardware bug (VIA IDE controller) that just makes it suck as a linux box. I added RAM, went from 256MB to 640MB and it made little if any difference. This is a W2k machine with AMD 800 or 900 Mhz using wireless G. It has an old Nvidia card, a TNT model I think.

256MB ram should be enough and the CPU should be able to play the recordings... or just so.. I guess it depends on the bit-rate. I know the performance is not as good as mplayer/vlc..
I think it might be because of the drivers that it is horrible slow. Could you check the log-file to see if it say
"VideoRender: Overlay is in hardware".. or "VideoRender: Overlay is NOT in hardware". In case the overlay is not in hardware you should update your drivers and directx. That normally helps. Still, it might be a bit to slow for the player.
Concerning the "slow-motion", is that because the player uses all the cpu power? (in this case, the audio does sound horrible)

Quote by chuck.peters on 2007-03-31, 04:22:
However recordings play just fine with mplayer, can you make it so mplayer is used to view recordings?

The entire point is to have an integrated player. It sounds like tapeworm is what you are looking for.

Quote by chuck.peters on 2007-03-31, 04:22:
I could add various samba shares, but I don't think mythtvplayer config.xml would allow multiple samba shares or if it would find the recordings that way. Viewing from the samba share made no difference in the slow motion viewing problem. Can you make mythtvplayer work in this situation?

It only uses the first samba-share you list. I guess I could implement support for multiple shares, but multiple backends should be supported if you do not use samba-shares. Does this work?

Quote by chuck.peters on 2007-03-31, 04:22:
I just tried to subscribe to the announcement mailing list at sourceforge, but I am getting "Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8." Would you please move the lists elsewhere? Or better yet make this part of the official mythtv project.

There seem to be some problems with the list.. Strange. I filed a support request so hopefully it will get fixed. I do not have anywhere else to host a list. Concerning making it an "official" part of the mythtv project, I do not think the mythtv team agrees. ;-)

Quote by chuck.peters on 2007-03-31, 04:22:
I noticed both the GPL and lgpl licenses included in the binary package, would you please document what code (or dll) is under whichever license?

The readme file tells which license the external libraries use. The GPL license is for the player itself.

Cheers,

\Mikkel