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#1 2006-08-20 21:27:15

gs
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mplayer issues

I get the audio playing, but the video seems innaccessible. I get this error msg:

Cannot find the codec matching selected -vo  and video format 0x33564D57

I suppose that -vo means video output? I was trying to play an .asf file and I have codecs installed.

Has anyone resolved this, or found that they have no problem?

Thanks in advance.

Geoff


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#2 2006-08-20 21:32:31

gs
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Re: mplayer issues

Starting to answer my own question, from the term I get:

Trying to force video codec driver family theora...
Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

Looks like I've got to build stuff in at compilation, doesn't it? Plus, Ill follow this through: Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

Geoff


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#3 2006-08-20 21:38:51

karsten
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Re: mplayer issues

probably because the win32codec package is 32-bit only.

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#4 2006-08-20 22:07:24

AndyRTR
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Re: mplayer issues

karsten wrote:

probably because the win32codec package is 32-bit only.

No. But not every 32bit codec work in a 64bit environment.

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/design7/codecs.html

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#5 2006-08-20 23:05:04

gs
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Re: mplayer issues

Thanks guys. I've researched a bit and certainly I plonked the .dll codecs into /usr/lib/codecs and rebuilt the package. But... this link gives some solid explanations about Wmv9 and the codecs, which relate to the 0x33564D57 video format.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread. … 974&page=6

In particular:

Playing back wmv9 files on AMD64 is tricky. On i386 you can use mplayer with the win32 codecs, or the experimental vc-1 codec. However, using AMD64, things get a bit more difficult. It is possible to use the 32bit mplayer package, but it requires that all the libraries that it depends on are also 32bit. Thats why I made a package for you!

The thread is quite extensive and certainly it can be built for ubuntu; and that could be used as a template for arch. Some of those libraries have already been re-used, but this would be a big venture, eh?

Geoff


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#6 2006-08-21 01:22:26

gs
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Re: mplayer issues

Right on this very page and lower down is this thread: [arch64] and multimedia codecs

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 5ea9447cda

I should have looked for this earlier... sorry, I didn't! But I see there has been some earlier interest in getting mplayer more adapted for arch64, so maybe the above ubuntu thread will be of some use.


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