Wednesday, December 20, 2023

mpv won't play video : "Consider fixing your graphic drivers"

I own a 2013 Clevo laptop. Running obsd as daily driver and
default/minimalist tools such as cwm, tmux, st, mpv, cmus &tc.

I have a dedicated partition mounted on /home/media for storing
multimedia files : music, movies, series &tc.

mpv is reluctant to correctly play videos if another process
is using the slightest amount of computer resources.
For instance at the moment I have only a tmux session inside
st running cp to put some music on an sd card. Yet the video
won't play, only audio, whereas if mpv is the only process
running I can enjoy my series without trouble.

$mpv /home/media/E\ -\ Séries/Salem/Salem\
S01/Salem.S01E06.VOSTFR.720p.HDTV.x264-RUDY.mkv
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) 'Video' (h264 1280x720 23.976fps)
(+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) 'Audio' (ac3 6ch 48000Hz)
Subs --sid=1 --slang=fre (*) 'Subs' (subrip)
[vo/sdl] Using opengl
[vo/sdl] Warning: this legacy VO has bad performance. Consider fixing
your graphics drivers, or not forcing the sdl VO.
AO: [sndio] 48000Hz 5.1(alsa) (5.1) 6ch s16
VO: [sdl] 1280x720 yuv420p
AV: 00:00:02 / 00:42:55 (0%) A-V: -0.000

Exiting... (Quit)
$

What could go wrong ? I doubt that it would only be that my
computer isn't powerful enough. I have tried different --vo
arguments without success.
--
Sylvain Saboua
linktr.ee/Sylvain

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