Blu-Ray rip not playable

jack_slayton · 2010-02-16 11:40:37

Hi there,

i just bought the John Mayer - Where the light is Blu-Ray disk and ripped id to my harddisk.
Now the problem is that it is noch really playable (the .m2ts files in the STREAM directory)
Its jerking around (is that the correct word for it?) and uses 100% of the CPU.

My hardware specs:
Intel DualCore 2.66GHz
ATI Radeon HD 4800 (xf86-video-ati driver)
4GB RAM

I tried different players like VLC, SMplayer, totem and so on, but no one worked.
One time actualy it did work with SMplayer but i dont know why - after the next boot it didn't work anymore

So i think its not a video or hardware problem. I heard of a bug in the sound system which can cause this and played around wit the sound output module in the players a little bit. And for some output modules the video output worked better for some of them it was worse.

Any Ideas what i can try?

Thanks
Marcel

PirateJonno · 2010-02-17 01:31:27

your hardware isn't good enough to play HD video on linux. you could buy an nVidia card and use VDPAU or wait for the ATI drivers to have useful video acceleration

Gusar · 2010-02-17 10:26:08

ATI drivers do have video acceleration, if (but with anything fglrx, that's a big if) you can manage to get this working: http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/ <-- a MPlayer with vaapi support and an xvba backend for vaapi.

The processor might be fast enough if you use a multithreaded decoder - install mplayer-mt-git from AUR to get it, and then start mplayer with

mplayer -lavdopts threads=2

uwinkelvos · 2010-02-17 12:55:24

I recently learned that some 1080i HD DVB-Streams with high birates are not even playable on my Phenom II 720, which should be a little faster than your CoreDuo. I have seen some good results of ffdshow-mt builds (should be the same with ffmpeg on linux) with this materials on an other Intel machine. If you manage to get the ati catalyst driver to work you can, as Gusar states, use mplayer with vaapi to get GPU accelereated decoding. All pacakges you need are in the AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28074
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31724 <-- smplayer will complain about the mplayer version, but you can simply igrnoe it. just uninstall mplayer with pachman -Rd
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31723 <-- you may need to add 'i686' to the arch array if you are on a 32-bit system.

jack_slayton · 2010-02-17 16:05:51

Hey guys, thanks for the replys,

Do you really think my hardware is too waeak?

I tried the mplayer from AUR with 2 threads - no noticable difference to the normal version

Catalyst ... I wish the ATI guys would care more about theyr catalyst piece of shit for linux
I won't try to install it. I don't want to downgrade to Xorg <1.7 anymore.

I think i'll try to reencode it to another smaller format.

Thanks for your eforts.
Marcel

uwinkelvos · 2010-02-17 20:51:17

Luckily i do not own any ati cards any more. Were both cores at 100% with mplayer-mt?

PirateJonno · 2010-02-18 01:25:43

jack_slayton wrote:

Do you really think my hardware is too waeak?

Hi, sorry if I was misleading, your hardware would be fine if you were running windows, and I was mistaken about it being impossible to use XvBA with anything right now, although it does seem from the above posts to be fairly difficult

kokoko3k · 2010-02-18 11:56:37

-EDIT-
Sorry didn't read all the posts, does:
"-lavdopts threads=2:skiploopfilter=all" makes any difference?
other tricks are :"-lavdopts threads=2:skiploopfilter=all:lowres=1:fast", but some of them are unstable or too lossy.
(closed) coreavc decoder could be your last try, it is possible to build mplayer with support for it, it costs about 10$

Last edited by kokoko3k (2010-02-18 12:02:16)

jack_slayton · 2010-02-18 16:51:17

-lavdopts threads=2:skiploopfilter=all
and
-lavdopts threads=2:skiploopfilter=all:lowres=1:fast
don't make any difference

Not both cores are at 100%. One is at ~100% and the other is at ~60-80% most of the time

Thank you
Marcel

jack_slayton · 2010-02-19 17:50:15

WTF, today my linux seemed to me to be very fast.
Maybe the updated XOrg? Or maybe after the next reebot its slower again (happens actually, dont know why there are differences some times)

I tried to play the blu ray and guess what: It works!
VLC and mplayer are able to play it!
WTF?

kokoko3k · 2010-02-19 19:47:12

I bet it is a video driver issue.

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