SMPlayer unreliable with DVD subtitles :(

[SpectrumDT]

Hello.

I have been using the SMPlayer video player lately. It's a good program, but it works unreliably with DVDs. One thing is that it can't find the DVD menus, which, as far as I understand, is a failing of the underlying MPlayer.

A more serious problem for me is that it sometimes fails to find the subtitles. The menu "Subtitles -> Select" shows no available subtitle tracks. (The DVD does have subs, and they work fine in Kaffeine.)

Can this problem be solved? Does anyone know?

Thanks in advance.

[rvm]

Could you copy the mplayer log (options->view logs) when you try to play a dvd which doesn't show subs?

[SpectrumDT]

Hi. Thanks for the reply. Sorry about the slow reaction from me.

Originally Posted by rvm

Could you copy the mplayer log (options->view logs) when you try to play a dvd which doesn't show subs?

Sure thing.

MPlayer log:

/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo x11 -ao alsa -zoom -nokeepaspect -framedrop -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 75497486 -colorkey 0x020202 -monitoraspect 1.25 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -dvd-device /mnt/dvd/gilgamesh/disc2 -chapter 1 -dvdangle 1 -nocache -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -channels 2 dvd://2

MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://2.
ID_DVD_TITLES=6
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=4
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_CHAPTERS=6
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_CHAPTERS=6
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_CHAPTERS=6
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_CHAPTERS=6
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_CHAPTERS=6
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=39.333
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_LENGTH=1433.867
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_LENGTH=1433.867
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_LENGTH=1433.900
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_LENGTH=1433.867
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_LENGTH=1433.734
ID_DVD_DISC_ID=CABA15C126881D8E56E14E0CF5F7AE12
There are 6 titles on this DVD.
ID_DVD_CURRENT_TITLE=2
There are 6 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
number of audio channels on disk: 0.
number of subtitles on disk: 0
CHAPTERS: 00:00:00,00:01:41,00:11:26,00:21:42,00:23:22,00:23:53,
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  8900.0 kbps (1112.5 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=dvd://2
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=8900000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.970
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=1433.87
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":0.0".
xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window.
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=mpeg12
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=448000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52
Starting playback...
ID_AUDIO_ID=129
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7778
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
[swscaler @ 0x876e990]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv420p to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0x876e990]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 0x876e990]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 0x876e990]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
[swscaler @ 0x876e990]SwScaler: using MMX2 YV12->BGR24 Converter
[swscaler @ 0x876e990]SwScaler: 720x480 -> 854x480
VO: [x11] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12  [zoom]
X11 error: BadAccess during XSelectInput Call
X11 error: The 'ButtonPressMask' mask of specified window has probably already used by another appication (see man XSelectInput)
X11 error: MPlayer discards mouse control (reconfiguring)
X11 error: BadAccess during XSelectInput Call
X11 error: The 'ButtonPressMask' mask of specified window has probably already used by another appication (see man XSelectInput)
X11 error: MPlayer discards mouse control (reconfiguring)
ID_AUDIO_TRACK=128
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.
[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1

[rvm]

The problem is that mplayer prints the info about the subtitles once the movie has started to play, while smplayer expects it before.

It's a known problem and I'll try to fix it soon.

[SpectrumDT]

Originally Posted by rvm

The problem is that mplayer prints the info about the subtitles once the movie has started to play, while smplayer expects it before.

It's a known problem and I'll try to fix it soon.

Sounds good. I'll try to keep an eye out, then.

Keep it up. SMPlayer is a good player.