[gentoo-user] xorg-session filled possibly with sddm errors about video files.

[Dale]

Howdy,

I was digging around the other day and noticed a large log file.  I just
had to see why it was so large.  It's over 1GB.  This is a example of
its content.  It just repeats, a LOT. 


[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af3fb5c1c0] Format
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
possible!
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af3fb5c1c0] moov atom not found
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af4087ade0] Format
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
possible!
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af4087ade0] moov atom not found
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af408794e0] Format
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
possible!
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af408794e0] moov atom not found


As most know, I watch TV from this thing.  I'm almost certain it is
being generated by smplayer because I tested to see if it does this with
only smplayer running.  I use mpv for playing videos etc on my monitor
itself but it doesn't do it when mpv is playing.  From the log file
size, it has been doing this a while but there is no time stamps to go
by.  However, using tail -f to monitor it, it repeats every second or so. 

First, I'd like to fix whatever is causing this if I can.  It may be the
video file itself or it may be smplayer.  If it is the video files, it's
a lot of them.  It's been doing this for days or more.  I've played a
lot of videos in that time frame.  I looked in smplayer and tried
disabling logging there, no change.  It still adds to that log.  Anyone
have a clue how to fix this??

Second, if it is not fixable, since these errors aren't preventing
videos from playing just fine, how do I stop the errors from going into
the log file?  While I have a fairly large size /home that this file
parks on, it would eventually start hogging up a lot of drive space. 

I did some searches for the error.  It appears to be reported but I
don't see a way to fix it.  It seems I would have to figure out what
video files trigger it and then fix the files one at a time.  Given
that, the second option may be the best way to deal with this. 

Thoughts?  Ideas?  Large hammer???  lol 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[Michael]

Post by Dale
Howdy,
I was digging around the other day and noticed a large log file. I just
had to see why it was so large. It's over 1GB. This is a example of
its content. It just repeats, a LOT.
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
possible!
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
possible!
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
possible!
As most know, I watch TV from this thing. I'm almost certain it is
being generated by smplayer because I tested to see if it does this with
only smplayer running. I use mpv for playing videos etc on my monitor
itself but it doesn't do it when mpv is playing. From the log file
size, it has been doing this a while but there is no time stamps to go
by. However, using tail -f to monitor it, it repeats every second or so.
First, I'd like to fix whatever is causing this if I can. It may be the
video file itself or it may be smplayer. If it is the video files, it's
a lot of them. It's been doing this for days or more. I've played a
lot of videos in that time frame. I looked in smplayer and tried
disabling logging there, no change. It still adds to that log. Anyone
have a clue how to fix this??
Second, if it is not fixable, since these errors aren't preventing
videos from playing just fine, how do I stop the errors from going into
the log file? While I have a fairly large size /home that this file
parks on, it would eventually start hogging up a lot of drive space.
I did some searches for the error. It appears to be reported but I
don't see a way to fix it. It seems I would have to figure out what
video files trigger it and then fix the files one at a time. Given
that, the second option may be the best way to deal with this.
Thoughts? Ideas? Large hammer??? lol
Dale
:-) :-)

I recall seeing ffmpeg reporting similar output with some video files, when it
doesn't like the particular file's adherence to a codec or mux wrapper.
Sometimes it also prints warnings about fixing your video file or it may not
work with ffmpeg in the future.

I haven't used smplayer/mplayer for the best part of 10 years, so I don't know
how it could be tweaked. You could try creating an alias for mplayer with the
'--quiet' option, or whatever equivalent mplayer has to suppress console
output, or find if you can specify this in smplayer's config.

Alternatively, if you don't want to approach this from the video player angle,
you can look into controlling the log output of sddm:

/usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf

Search the above file to find "# Path to the user session log file" and after
you copy it over to your /etc/ssdm/ comment out the path to the log file, or
redirect it to /dev/null, or if neither of these work symlink the sddm log
file from your /home to /dev/null.

[Dale]

Post by Dale
Howdy,
I was digging around the other day and noticed a large log file.  I just
had to see why it was so large.  It's over 1GB.  This is a example of
its content.  It just repeats, a LOT. 
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
possible!
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
possible!
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
possible!
As most know, I watch TV from this thing.  I'm almost certain it is
being generated by smplayer because I tested to see if it does this with
only smplayer running.  I use mpv for playing videos etc on my monitor
itself but it doesn't do it when mpv is playing.  From the log file
size, it has been doing this a while but there is no time stamps to go
by.  However, using tail -f to monitor it, it repeats every second or so. 
First, I'd like to fix whatever is causing this if I can.  It may be the
video file itself or it may be smplayer.  If it is the video files, it's
a lot of them.  It's been doing this for days or more.  I've played a
lot of videos in that time frame.  I looked in smplayer and tried
disabling logging there, no change.  It still adds to that log.  Anyone
have a clue how to fix this??
Second, if it is not fixable, since these errors aren't preventing
videos from playing just fine, how do I stop the errors from going into
the log file?  While I have a fairly large size /home that this file
parks on, it would eventually start hogging up a lot of drive space. 
I did some searches for the error.  It appears to be reported but I
don't see a way to fix it.  It seems I would have to figure out what
video files trigger it and then fix the files one at a time.  Given
that, the second option may be the best way to deal with this. 
Thoughts?  Ideas?  Large hammer???  lol 
Dale
:-)  :-) 

Ignore this.  I didn't realize I even sent this one.  Found out more
accurate info and created new thread.  Still don't recall hitting send.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-)