MMM-Mplayer video issues

[ge]

@evroom
Perfect timing. Just sat down think of options to try next. And the first one I was going to try was setting the cache and see what happens. So that is where I will start, and go from there. I’m also going to dig more into the options for Mplayer I can see the command to start mplayer is

mplayer rtsp://admin/camadmin@172.16.0.37:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0 -vf rotate=-1 monitoraspect 0 -noborder -geometry 471:20 -x 990 -y 557 -rtsp-stream-over-tcp -prefer-ipv4 -vo xv,gl,gl_nosw,vdpau, -nosound

Does not appear to be a memory issue. Starts at 74m, 24 hours later 80m. CPU averages from 12-25%, with a short jump to 40% for 1-2 seconds every 10 seconds on the Pi5. Much lower usage from the 4…so I expect there may be more going on with the 4. This 5 I setup from scratch, so no carryover from the 4.
And maybe it is the camera. It got along with the omxplayer, but maybe there is something Omxplayer that it didn’t care about, and now Mplayer does.

Thanks for the thoughts. I’ll continue to update this thread as I come across anything.

[ge]

I’ve tried way to many settings with no change. I have even found an old china made camera no difference. Made this the only running module, let the resolution on the screen match the camera and still after a few hours it’s fallen behind and back to stuttering … no change seems to make any difference.

So I’m going back to RSTP-Stream and see if I can get that to work. The video works using vlc , except I can’t get it top_center. It just likes running in the middle-center of the MagicMirror on the Pi5. The Pi4, it would only run on the top_left.