Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

[James F. <Ja...@Fi...>]

Trying a second time to get the correct return address!

On Thursday 15 January 2004 01:50, Steven M. Schultz wrote:

>       You should give mplayer a try.   www.mplayerhq.hu
>
>       Players just about anything.
>

When played back by mplayer, it plays without any sound drop outs.  Howev=
er,=20
when it reaches the location where I would expect it, mplayer displays a=20
message that your computer is to slow to play this file.  It displays the=
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message regardless how I play the file or even when the video screen is=20
reduced real small.  The current indicator zips along really fast when th=
e=20
screen size is reduced until hits the trouble spots.  This is on both my=20
workstation PIII-1GHz with Slack 8.1 and my notebook PIII-1.2GHz with SuS=
E=20
8.1.

Also, same problem on both the mpeg file and the VOB file.  So I have to=20
figure that it is probably in the mpeg file to start with before dvdautho=
r=20
processes it.


>       Recent version of Ogle?   Don't think there have been any major=20
changes
>       recently though.
>

I would think it is a fairly current version.  I downloaded the slack pac=
kages=20
that were available for Slackware 8.1.  They also offered 9.0 and 9.1=20
packages.  I just downloaded it last night in trying to identify where th=
e=20
problem is.


> > Any suggestions or thoughts on what might be causing the sound drop o=
uts
> > would be great.  The final DVD is about 98% playable.  At present the
> > problem appears to be in mplex or dvdauthor operations, but I am unab=
le
> > discern at the present time.
>
>       Possible to try another DVD player - perhaps take the DVD over to
>       a friend's house and  try it?

I tried to play it on another (older) DVD player and it played the first =
4=20
minutes just fine.  Then it just stopped.  I built a P4/Win98SE system th=
is=20
morning and installed PowerDVD XP and it played the first ten minutes wit=
hout=20
any drop outs or stopping.  Of course under Windows no real way to see an=
y=20
error messages or other problems.


>
>       You might try doing a 'cvs update' on the mjpegtools and ./autoge=
n.sh
>       again (which should sail thru without trouble now that you've don=
e it
>       once successfully) - I saw some changes come thru in the last day=
 or
>       so in mplex.

I maybe able to try updating from the CVS tonight and rebuilding late ton=
ight. =20
When I got the CVS built this time I had to go back and start over from t=
he=20
beginning.  It didn't like the files created from the 1.6.1 version.  But=
 I=20
shouldn't that problem this time.  I should be able to just multiplex it =
and=20
reauthor it.

Side note, the problem with dvdauthor and xml2 error message was I had bu=
ilt=20
it and installed for dvdauthor prior to mjpegtools.  But I forgot to set =
the=20
--prefix on configuring libxml2.  So I had to locate and delete the old=20
libxml2 libs.  It would be nice if the configure script could locate curr=
ent=20
installations and then configure for it unless directed otherwise.  Proba=
bly=20
solve a lot of build and execute problems.

Thank you for your assistance once again,
James