Re: Skystar 2 & mplayer 1.0pre2 probs

Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> 1) use the last version  from cvs, your mplayer seems to be 1.0pre2 
>> which is obsolete (as far as dvb:// is concerned)
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> Ok, then I'll wait for a new release or try to hack an ebuild for cvs 
> (I am on gentoo). 


just unpack and run
./configure --enable-menu && make all install

that's all you have to do, provided you have the dvb headers in the 
right place: /usr/include/linux/dvb/*.h

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>> 2) don't trim logs (they explain what is going on)
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> Well, I didn't do braindead trimming. Just tried to del redundant 
> parts or rather parts yielding no new infos. As I saw where the 
> channel switch was, I didn't take it out.
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>> 3) I asked you to send the log to me, not to the ML, because I knew 
>> it would be huge (as it is)
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> Sorry, my fault.
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>> The bug is in the cache management code: it simply doesn't work in 
>> 1.0pre2, but I fixed 2 weeks ago;
>> if you don't want to change mplayer, add -nocache to the command line
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> Yes, -cache works, but stutters, as one could expect. Nevertheless the 
> channel switching is very slow. Hope with CVS version it is faster. 


maybe you mean -nocache, right?

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> Should I post in the main player newslist regarding the xvmc issue? Or 
> is it a known issue? (It simply doesn't want to work with nvidia binary.)

I don't know anything about xvmc, but the place for bugreports is 
mplayer-users.

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> Thanx again.
>
> Prakash
>
You are welcome :)

Nico