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Aitikin
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 Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: MPlayer Codecs not working |
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| I have been trying to watch some recordings of BSG that my brother gave me and they won't play. I went through and tried to figure out what codecs I needed, and I tried pretty much everything. Now when I run mplayer -vc help I get a number of them as having problems or crashing. How would I go about fixing this? |
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lxg
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| Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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You missed out the most important info: what container and codec format do you exactly need?
If it's a recent WMV, forget it, it's DRM crap.
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Aitikin
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:04 am Post subject: Nope |
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| It's AVI and I've had it work on other Linux installs so I'm pretty much certain that it's not DRM crap. |
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BRPXQZME
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: |
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AVI tells nothing about what codec the video is in, except what it can't be.
What does MPlayer output when you try to play the video?
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lxg
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:43 am Post subject: |
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And could you please post the output of emerge -pv mplayer.
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Aitikin
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:56 am Post subject: Yeah |
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Sorry, I was out of town for a few days. Here's the output from running mplayer "Battlestar Galactica - 1x05 - You Can't Go Home Again.avi":
| Code: | MPlayer dev-CVS-060414-17:32-3.4.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64/FX Sledgehammer,San Diego,Venice (Family: 15, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
91 audio & 208 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Playing Battlestar Galactica - 1x05 - You Can't Go Home Again.avi.
Exiting... (End of file)
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making me think I might not have enough privileges? I'm in the video group though.
Here's emerge -pv mplayer
| Code: | Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild UD] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8 [1.0.20060415] USE="X aac alsa arts cdparanoia dga dts dvd dvdread encode gif gtk ipv6 jpeg mad nvidia opengl png rtc sdl theora unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 xinerama xv xvid -aalib -bidi -bindist -bl -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -directfb -doc -dv -dvb -esd -fbcon -ggi -i8x0 -jack -joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo -matrox -musepack -nas -openal -oss -samba -speex -tga -truetype -xanim -xmms -xvmc" 7,975 kB
Total size of downloads: 7,975 kB
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Fukai
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:29 am Post subject: Re: Yeah |
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making me think I might not have enough privileges? I'm in the video group though.
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Strange... what is the output of:
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file Battlestar Galactica - 1x05 - You Can't Go Home Again.avi
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And the rtc error can be resolved puting "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to /etc/conf.d/local.start (but this is not the best place and i don't remeber now where to put 1024 for rtc max-freq...). This only works in the next boot you can run the echo as root to solve now.
The strange thing is mplayer don't say nothing about the .avi file. |
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Fukai
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:37 am Post subject: Re: Yeah |
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| Fukai wrote: |
And the rtc error can be resolved puting "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to /etc/conf.d/local.start (but this is not the best place and i don't remeber now where to put 1024 for rtc max-freq...). This only works in the next boot you can run the echo as root to solve now. |
Remember! Add "dev.rtc.max-user-freq = 1024" to the /etc/sysctl.conf. And run this command as root (to solve this now):
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sysctl -w dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024
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dmpogo
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Could it be that you have a 64bit compiled mplayer (since it is Athlon64) while having 32bit codecs ?
Try precompiled 32bit mplayer-bin |
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