News24 Stream Fail

[David Wood]

>Hi,
>
>I've used the following command for a while now but for some reason it
>has stopped working since yesterday:
>
>get_iplayer --stream --modes=good --nopurge --type=livetv "BBC News"
>--player="mplayer -cache 2048 -ao alsa -title 'News 24' -"
>
>I've rebuilt mplayer 1.3.0 and updated get_iplayer to 2.95 but the
>problems remains.
>
>What happens is mplayer opens, plays a brief millisecond of sound and
>then nothing. I have a black mplayer screen which doesn't respond and
>I have to ctrl-c it.
>
>I've tried the command without piping to mplayer and there is output
>in the terminal so it looks like some data is coming through.
>
>Any ideas what I can check/test to find the problem?
>
>
>Here is console output:
>
>Playing -.
>Reading from stdin...
>Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   INFO: Checking existence of default
>version
>INFO: hvfhigh1,hvfhigh2,hvfstd1,hvfstd2,hvflow1,hvflow2 modes will be
>tried for version default
>INFO: Trying hvfhigh1 mode to stream livetv: BBC News - live
>Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
> libavformat version 57.25.100 (internal)
> TS file format detected.
> VIDEO H264(pid=256) AUDIO AAC(pid=257) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 1
> FPS seems to be: 25.000000
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/dri/tls/i965_dri.so
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so
> libGL: Using DRI2 for screen 0
> [gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback
> fails.
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> libavcodec version 57.24.102 (internal)
> Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
> ==========================================================================
> Load subtitles in ./
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->384000)
> Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4
> Audio))
> ==========================================================================
> AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
> [Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.
> Starting playback...
> Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> VO: [gl] 704x396 => 704x396 Planar YV12
>
>Thanks for any help

Update. I've just tried with -vo xv and it works, so it looks like an
opengl problem.