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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

mplayer doesn't play anything, could not initialize video filters

When trying to play a video, this is what I get.  I've tried changing the video driver, same error

[max@gayforceone ~]$ mplayer capture.avi
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
115 audio & 237 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing capture.avi.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Detected NON-INTERLEAVED AVI file format.
VIDEO:  [MJPG]  800x600  24bpp  15.015 fps  11713.4 kbps (1429.9 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Name:     
 Software: guvcview-0.9.5
 Comments:     Fri Nov 28 06:58:53 2008
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 705.6 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 88200->88200)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 800 x 600 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is nan:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 like)
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: 800x600 -> 800x600
VO: invalid dimensions!
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
VDec: vo config request - 800 x 600 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)
VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is nan:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: invalid dimensions!
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).


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SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: mplayer doesn't play anything, could not initialize video filters

What video output are you using, try re-running mplayer with the -vo xv option, or failing that the -vo gl options, see if they work.

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: mplayer doesn't play anything, could not initialize video filters

I've tried all the options in gmplayer, they all don't work.  I'm assuming the command line carries out the same functions.  I've tried a couple (but not all) and they didn't work either.