#491 AC3 movie does not play inside smplayer, works from shell

[Cyrill Helg]

Very strange behaviour: SMPlayer gives an error when trying to play the movie: MPlayer finished unexpectedly, Exit Code: 1, with this log on mplayer:

/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -afm hwac3 -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo -ao alsa:device=hw=0.3 -nokeepaspect -framedrop -dr -double -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -stop-xscreensaver -wid 111149147 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/chelg/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Bitstream Vera Sans -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 16 -subfont-text-scale 16 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -vid 0 -aid 0 -sub /media/full_bkp_old_hom/tmp/The.Usual.Suspects.1995.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-ESiR_en.srt -subpos 100 -volume 50 -cache 7000 -ss 335 -osdlevel 0 -idx -vf-add screenshot -slices -softvol -softvol-max 110 /media/.....

MPlayer2 fc6a9e4 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
162 audio & 361 video codecs
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.
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.

Playing /media/full_bkp_old_hom/tmp/The.Usual.Suspects.1995.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-ESiR.mkv.

Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)

ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_NAME=English
ID_AID_0_LANG=eng
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_DTS) "English", -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Detected file format: Matroska
VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x544 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILE_SUB_ID=0
[...]
ID_DEMUXER=mkv
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=544
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.3529
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8193
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=6364.07
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
[gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails.
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Asking decoder to use 4 threads if supported.
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: hwdts
Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
hwac3: switched to DTS, 1536000 bps, 48000 Hz

AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=1536000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [hwdts] afm: hwac3 (DTS through S/PDIF)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4571:(parse_args) Unknown parameter AES0
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4704:(snd_config_expand) Parse arguments error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:0,3,AES0=6
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch ac3le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=hwdts
[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.
[format] Sample format little-endian AC3 not yet supported
Starting playback...

---> But when I leave the SMPplayer window open and copy the commandline to my shell it plays!

/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -afm hwac3 -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo -ao alsa:device=hw=0.3 -nokeepaspect -framedrop -dr -double -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -stop-xscreensaver -wid 111149147 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/chelg/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Bitstream Vera Sans -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 16 -subfont-text-scale 16 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -vid 0 -aid 0 -sub /media/full_bkp_old_hom/tmp/The.Usual.Suspects.1995.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-ESiR_en.srt -subpos 100 -volume 50 -cache 7000 -ss 335 -osdlevel 0 -idx -vf-add screenshot -slices -softvol -softvol-max 110 /media/full_bkp_old_hom/...
MPlayer2 fc6a9e4 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
162 audio & 361 video codecs
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 remot

Playing Vera.
File not found: 'Vera'
Failed to open Vera.

Playing Sans.
File not found: 'Sans'
Failed to open Sans.

Playing /media/full_bkp_old_hom/tmp/The.Usual.Suspects.1995.720p.Bl
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_NAME=English
ID_AID_0_LANG=eng
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_DTS) "English", -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Detected file format: Matroska
VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x544 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte
[...]
ID_DEMUXER=mkv
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=544
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.3529
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8193
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=6364.07
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
[gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Asking decoder to use 4 threads if supported.
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: hwdts
Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
hwac3: switched to DTS, 1536000 bps, 48000 Hz

AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=1536000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [hwdts] afm: hwac3 (DTS through S/PDIF)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4571:(parse_args) Unknown parameter AES0
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4704:(snd_config_expand) Parse arguments error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:0,3,AES0=6
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch ac3le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=hwdts
Starting playback...
A: 0.0 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.000 ct: 0.000 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
Movie-Aspect is 2.35:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.3529
VO: [gl] 1280x544 => 1280x544 Planar YV12
X11 error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
[ass] PlayResX undefined, setting to 384
^C 6.2 V: 6.2 A-V: 0.002 ct: -0.001 0/ 0 0% 0% 0.1% 0 0

MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: flip_page
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
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