Whaawmp

[lmello]

Ok, playing an unencrypted DVD on Whaawmp:

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GStreamer encountered a general resource error.

gstmpeg2dec.c(455): gst_mpeg2dec_alloc_buffer (): /GstPlayBin2:player/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/RsnDvdBin:source/RsnVideoDec:viddec/GstAutoConvert:autoconvert5/GstMpeg2dec:mpeg2dec2:
Failed to allocate memory for buffer, reason not-negotiated

[gapan]

Can you play the DVD with mplayer and post all output that mplayer generates?

[lmello]

It plays ok, but...

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 mplayer dvd://
MPlayer 20101218-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team

Playing dvd://.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
There are 1 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000123
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00000194
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x000001c1
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: unknown aid: 128.
number of audio channels on disk: 1.
number of subtitles on disk: 0

MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12 
[swscaler @ 0xebc140]using unscaled yuv420p -> bgra special converter
[mpeg2video @ 0xe0c140]ac-tex damaged at 9 11
[mpeg2video @ 0xe0c140]Warning MVs not available
[mpeg2video @ 0xe0c140]concealing 855 DC, 855 AC, 855 MV errors

[Dags]

Just for the record. I have tried Parole with a DVD and I get the same; no sound. I have also tried the other options in gstreamer-properties; that doesn't work either.

[gapan]

@lmello
that shows that the movie stream in the DVD is somehow damaged. That is probably what's causing this. MPlayer probably is more error resilient than gstreamer is. Perhaps a newer gstreamer (in salix 14.0) will fix this.

@Dags
Thanks. That proves it's not a whaawmp specific thing, it's more likely that gstreamer doesn't tolerate the slight errors that the DVDs probably have.

[sojurn]

@lmello
that shows that the movie stream in the DVD is somehow damaged. That is probably what's causing this. MPlayer probably is more error resilient than gstreamer is. Perhaps a newer gstreamer (in salix 14.0) will fix this.

@Dags
Thanks. That proves it's not a whaawmp specific thing, it's more likely that gstreamer doesn't tolerate the slight errors that the DVDs probably have.

Regarding the "no DVD sound" part:

I managed to coax a "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in" error from the console, searched for that along with the word DVD, and stumbled across this from the Ubuntu folks:

"there is no audio for LATM-AAC recordings only ones with AC3"

"open ~/.gstreamer-0.10
remove or rename the registry.x86_64.bin
Open your music player.
it'll regenerate the registry file and correctly use the aac plugin."

I can test it with a fresh install as well as with other DVDs, but I renamed my ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.i486.bin file, fired up whaawmp, and had DVD sound for the first time.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1864150

[gapan]

Ah, thanks sojurn. That explains why I or others couldn't reproduce it. It's a matter of some old settings that somehow were left behind.

[sojurn]

Ah, thanks sojurn. That explains why I or others couldn't reproduce it. It's a matter of some old settings that somehow were left behind.

I like whaaw, and just wasn't happy with having it so close like that, since it plays everything else so well. There is another question though, or two actually. I guess the Stream/DVD menu is for only after you start playing a movie, not before? And right at the beginning there is a screen with "Select options" with a title and/or channel number. If I select "1" I get this:

** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Can't stat 1
No such file or directory
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/whaawmp/gui/main.py:943: GtkWarning: Unable to retrieve the file info for `dvd://1/': The specified location is not supported
gtk.main()

And in a pop-up window:

"Could not open resource for reading.
resindvdsrc.c(364): rsn_dvdsrc_start (): /GstPlayBin2:player/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/RsnDvdBin:source/resinDvdSrc:dvdsrc:
system error: No such file or directory"

Its not a bad problem, since I can just play the DVD without selecting anything (and then once it starts playing open the menu if I want). Am I missing something here?

[gapan]

I don't think you're missing anything. This seems like a small bug with whaawmp. The correct way to address the first track of a dvd would be "dvd://1". Notice the missing trailing /, which is added by whaawmp, that's probably why it doesn't play.