Mplayer is not wroking if compiz effects are enabled

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#1

Hi Friends

Mplayer is not wroking if compiz effects are enabled. Please help on this.

Thanks
Joy

#2
  • itsjoy2u wrote, On 09/08/2008 09:16 AM:
    > Hi Friends
    >
    > Mplayer is not wroking if compiz effects are enabled. Please help on
    > this.

Preferences, Video tab, set the driver to “x11”.
Or use SMPlayer, seems to work better here.

Uwe

#3

Just to figure the problem: what video card you have, and what are the output messages if you run mplayer fron within a terminal?

#4

I am not getting any msg. If I ran it with command prompt, it simply vanishing from the screen. If I disable the compiz it works absolutely fine.

Thanks
Joy:|

#5

As mentioned, I would try different -vo drivers. I would be surprised, though, if you got no output whatsoever; I get some output before the video even begins when I run from a prompt.

Try:

mplayer video_to_watch 2> log.txt

to redirect stderr (standard error output) to a text file named log.txt to view after. To get everything, you could try:

mplayer video_to_watch > log.txt

the only problem with which will be that all output will be written to file, including the video, so if it seems to go on for a little while, I would stop it. You’ll get some gobble-de-gook, but at the beginning of the file will be mplayer’s output.

#6

I mean a console not a ‘run command’ option. Mplayer always prints something even when running fine. And what about your video card? It could be related to video driver. I had the same problem on an intel 945 and i solved this fine-tuning the driver

#7

I had some similar problems.

Make sure you have the Packman-packaged versions of ffmpeg and libffmpeg installed. That should let you select x11 as the video driver.

That fixed it for me.