No video_ts and no preview

[MacSilentG]

Hi,

It's been a while since I needed ffmpeg. A few months ago I had to use it and noticed that I didn't was able to use the preview function. I wanted to convert from avi to DVD and was using the DVDmpeg2enc-function (what in the past always worked perfect).

When I press preview (in the Filter Tab) mplayer opens and closes again.

saying:
Mplayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode_video
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 DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there.
Quartz error: CDSequenceEnd (-50)


When I don't use the preview and encode without it, the process starts but after it, I do not find the VIDEO_TS folder

I downloaded the ffmpegXy version and removed the older one
I downloaded all the binaries again (I think I used the last ones) but nothing helps.

I'm using:
Mac OS X
version 10.3.9
Processor 1Ghz PowerPC G4
Memory: 512 MB RAM

Can anyone help me out with this please?
I'm using ffmpeg several years now for my work and i am very pleased with it
Now I do not know what to do

Greetings

[Case]

I haven't seen that error before, but there are a few things to try:
1/ Try the [Play] button in ffmpegX. Does mplayer crash as well? (Use [q] to quit mplayer when it is playing.)
2/ Try to preview a different AVI. Does mplayer crash as well?
3/ Does the Terminal command

/Library/Application\ Support/ffmpegX/mplayer /Users/username/Desktop/Sample.avi

play the AVI? (Replace the path to the AVI with the correct one for your setup.)
4/ Does the AVI play well in other player apps?
5/ Does ffmpegX recognize the video and audio details of the AVI, on the left side of the Summary tab? (What are these details?)

All these steps are an effort to try to find out if it is mplayer or your source file that is misbehaving here.

[MacSilentG]

Hi case,

thanks for answering!
I did the following:

1/ Try the [Play] button in ffmpegX. Does mplayer crash as well? (Use [q] to quit mplayer when it is playing.)

yes, it did crash

2/ Try to preview a different AVI. Does mplayer crash as well?
yes, the same crash

3/ Does the Terminal command

/Library/Application\ Support/ffmpegX/mplayer /Users/username/Desktop/Sample.avi

play the AVI? (Replace the path to the AVI with the correct one for your setup.)
I'm sorry ... how do I do this? sorry, do not know

4/ Does the AVI play well in other player apps?
yes, in other players (Quicktimeplayer, VLC), the AVI's are playing without a problem

5/ Does ffmpegX recognize the video and audio details of the AVI, on the left side of the Summary tab? (What are these details?)
yes, it recognizes it
details:
From: AVI
Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 640x480
Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s

greetings and thank you for trying to help me
MacsilentG

I haven't seen that error before, but there are a few things to try:
1/ Try the [Play] button in ffmpegX. Does mplayer crash as well? (Use [q] to quit mplayer when it is playing.)
2/ Try to preview a different AVI. Does mplayer crash as well?
3/ Does the Terminal command

/Library/Application\ Support/ffmpegX/mplayer /Users/username/Desktop/Sample.avi

play the AVI? (Replace the path to the AVI with the correct one for your setup.)
4/ Does the AVI play well in other player apps?
5/ Does ffmpegX recognize the video and audio details of the AVI, on the left side of the Summary tab? (What are these details?)

All these steps are an effort to try to find out if it is mplayer or your source file that is misbehaving here.

[MacSilentG]

Hi Case,

you mentioned that you didn't saw this error before ... me neither (but I'm not the expert) until now, I just read this one. I don't know if there something in common but it's the same error:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic354630.html

greetings

I haven't seen that error before, but there are a few things to try:
1/ Try the [Play] button in ffmpegX. Does mplayer crash as well? (Use [q] to quit mplayer when it is playing.)
2/ Try to preview a different AVI. Does mplayer crash as well?
3/ Does the Terminal command

/Library/Application\ Support/ffmpegX/mplayer /Users/username/Desktop/Sample.avi

play the AVI? (Replace the path to the AVI with the correct one for your setup.)
4/ Does the AVI play well in other player apps?
5/ Does ffmpegX recognize the video and audio details of the AVI, on the left side of the Summary tab? (What are these details?)

All these steps are an effort to try to find out if it is mplayer or your source file that is misbehaving here.

[Case]

3/ Does the Terminal command ...
I'm sorry ... how do I do this? sorry, do not know

It will probably crash, just like the [Play] button, but here's how:
First a little introduction:
As Mac OS X is based on BSD Unix, it also comes with a utility that allows the user to run the computer by text commands ("Command Line"): the Terminal. It is located in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

To use programs in the Terminal, you'll need special applications that can be run by just text input. Apple calls them Unix Executable Files.

This is how ffmpegX works: you set things up in a pretty application with buttons and input fields, and when you run it, it sends command line instructions to various Unix executables in the background.

Back to the issue at hand:
To use mplayer without ffmpegX, Open the Terminal application. You'll get a window with a Welcome message, and a line that reads: [Your-Computer-Name]:~ [your-username]$
The window is called a "Shell". That last line that ends with the $ sign is called "the prompt". It is where you can type commands. You may use copy-and-paste to enter commands. You can even use drag-and-drop to enter the complete path to a file.
In the Finder, go to /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/ and find mplayer.
Drag-and-drop mplayer to the Terminal window. The path to that file is entered for you. It should now read: [Your-Computer-Name]:~ [your-username]$ /Library/Application\ Support/ffmpegX/mplayer
Drag-and-drop a movie file to the Terminal window. The path to that file is entered for you. It should now read: [Your-Computer-Name]:~ [your-username]$ /Library/Application\ Support/ffmpegX/mplayer /Users/username/Desktop/Sample.avi for a file named Sample.avi located on your desktop. The last bit will look different for other movie files at other locations.
Hit the <Return> or <Enter> key to start.
You just told your computer to run an application called mplayer, and gave it only one parameter: the file to play.

[Case]

you mentioned that you didn't saw this error before ... me neither (but I'm not the expert) until now, I just read this one. I don't know if there something in common but it's the same error:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic354630.html

That one looks like a slightly different issue, as it was mentioned that "Everytime i preview i get this message after closing the preview window". So mplayer worked well, it just didn't handle the way it was stopped. mplayer should be stopped by using the [q] key, not by closing the window using the red button in the upper left corner.

[MacSilentG]

hi case,

it crashed again ... this is the report:

greetings
macsilentg

Last login: Thu Aug 7 20:07:44 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Silentium:~ Silentium$ /Applications/ffmpegX/tools/mplayer /Users/Silentium/Movies/Platvoet/Platvoet.avi
MPlayer dev-CVS-051126-18:35-3.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC

Playing /Users/Silentium/Movies/Platvoet/Platvoet.avi.
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [XVID] 640x480 12bpp 29.970 fps 1498.9 kbps (183.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
================================================== ========================
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16be -> 0Hz/0ch/s8...
AO: [macosx] 44100Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16be -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16be...
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [quartz] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode_video
- 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
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
Quartz error: CDSequenceEnd (-50)
Silentium:~ Silentium$

[Case]

That is weird: mplayer is running fine and detecting things at first, until it has to show the movie on screen, then it crashes.
When I play a movie file this way, the "VO: [quartz] ..." line is the last line in the Terminal before it starts actually playing.

[tomlee59]

There is a small chance that your problem is with hardware. Perhaps your hard disk has developed bad sectors, or your RAM has flaky bits. I recommend running a good disk utility first (starting with Apple's own, but if you discover problems, you may wish to use a third-party utility for the repair), just to preclude that possibility.

Just a thought.

[MacSilentG]

Ok, I did use disk warrior today
there were indeed problems with my HD and disk warrior has rebuilt it
these process was succesfully

i've juist tried mplayer again but with the same problems as before
i don't suppose i have to reinstall everything after the disk warrior-process

a good thought but no solution

greetings but still confused
macsilentg

[Case]

Perhaps the disk structure problems that DiskWarrior detected, caused a bad installation for mplayer. I suggest re-downloading and installing the binaries again in a healthy Mac situation.

[MacSilentG]

I did reinstall the binaries ... same error

greetings

[Case]

Then I have no more clues as to why mplayer doesn't work as it should. Sorry.

Try converting in ffmpegX without invoking mplayer. You said "I do not find the VIDEO_TS folder". Did you get any output files at all? Which files (e.g. .m2v, .ac3, .mp2, .mpg) at which size? Can you post the Process Information log? (It may be quite long for mpeg2enc, so perhaps attach as .txt file.)

[tomlee59]

I did reinstall the binaries ... same error

greetings

Did you reinstall *only* the binaries, or ffmpegx, too? After doing a disk repair, it is advisable to do a clean reinstall of any apps that misbehave. Won't take much time, can't hurt, and it might help.

[MacSilentG]

I did install ffmpeg also
no result

[MacSilentG]

I don't understand it anymore ... i did try to convert but I had to stop the process every time
reason: my HD is full
I have 20Gb of free space but when ffmpeg is converting, everything is gone and disappears in the stream.
When I remove this after cancelling the process, I have 20Gb again.
what's happening here?

Then I have no more clues as to why mplayer doesn't work as it should. Sorry.

Try converting in ffmpegX without invoking mplayer. You said "I do not find the VIDEO_TS folder". Did you get any output files at all? Which files (e.g. .m2v, .ac3, .mp2, .mpg) at which size? Can you post the Process Information log? (It may be quite long for mpeg2enc, so perhaps attach as .txt file.)