Video Playback

[ZaZ]

Thanks naticus. I ran through all the steps, but when I went to play video in smplayer, it popped up some dialog box saying something about it wasn't sure it had the right version of something. I can't remember exactly as I closed it and it doesn't do it again, but smplayer doesn't play any videos.

[H.A.L. 9000]

Thanks naticus. I ran through all the steps, but when I went to play video in smplayer, it popped up some dialog box saying something about it wasn't sure it had the right version of something. I can't remember exactly as I closed it and it doesn't do it again, but smplayer doesn't play any videos.

I believe the box in SMPlayer that you're talking about is asking you which version of MPlayer you have installed... I saw that too. I had to google it. Anyways, I had to select the 3rd option of the 3 given. It was the newest version or better option.

[TuxDude]

I've had better success usually with VLC than mplayer with any plugin/codec issues. Just give that a shot to see if you notice any improvement, if not go back to mplayer.

mplayer is a well written and advanced player which can play even when the file is corrupted (to some extent) and also improperly composed.

[ZaZ]

How do I get the box back? I closed it right away and hasn't come up again. SMPlayers seems better, but has issues of its own. Right now neither is really good enough. I don't know how to access the back end on VLC, so there's not much for me to mess around with. If I throw Windows on the machine and Media Player Classic on the machine I have no issues.

Edit: Just for fun I tossed my nVidia card back in and it said my driver was activated, but not in use. I could use the software, but I wonder if this is effecting my performance. I gather from elsewhere, this is a bug, but I don't know how to fix it.

[TuxDude]

Always use the proprietary drivers for your ATI and nvidia cards - believe me the reality is that the open source driver's performance is no where close to the prop drivers.

in VLC, open Tools->preferences:

Video->Output for accessing the video backend
Audio->Output module for accessing the audio backend

The settings are far simpler than MPC

[ZaZ]

Yeah, but if I can't get the card working, it's probably not going to work well. Thanks Tux.

[naticus]

You must not have gotten the ffmpeg-mt installled properly. I would recommend uninstalling the libs for ffmpeg and compiling an git from source, it should fix all of your issues.

This should help.

HOWTO: Compiling mplayer with multi-core decoding support - Ubuntu Forums

[TuxDude]

Out of curiosity, could you post your hardware specs ? CPU, RAM, chipset, Graphics card and type of Hard drive will do...

[ZaZ]

Motherboard: Foxconn A74ML-K
CPU: AMD Athlon II x4 600e
Chipset: 740G + SB700
Memory: 2GB PC6400
GPU: I have a GT520 and a 5450
Drives 40GB Agility 2 SSD(Boot Drive), 2x2TB 5400RPM(Hitachi 5k3000)

I finished my Windows install yesterday and made my image. Hopefully, I can get this work as I'd prefer to run Linux, but Windows at least works good.

[ZaZ]

I just tried again with Mint and the GT520. It keeps telling me my GPU driver is in use, but not active. I think if I can get this solved, I'll be on the road to fixing things.