[FFmpeg-user] ffplay and mpeg1video files

[Roger Pack]

On 12/23/12, Robert A. Schmied <ras at acm.org> wrote:
> aloha ffmpeg users and gurus
>
> we're a bit perplexed, maybe just unable to see a tree for the forest ...
> we have an old old old ffmpeg that plays mpeg1video files mentioned
> below just fine.
>   %     ffmpeg -version
>     ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4718, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice
> Bellard
>     built on Oct 27 2005 18:34:55, gcc: 3.4.4
>   ffmpeg      0.4.9-pre1
>   libavcodec  4718
>   libavformat 4616
>
>
>
> because of it's age (the old ffmpeg) we decided maybe a newer model might
> be nice so proceeded to downloaded and build 'angel' on solaris 10 sparc
> with ancient sunpro c 5.8 (from sunpro 11). with only some minor tweaks
> to configure and config.mak it built ok; seems (mostly) functional ...
>   %    file ffplay
>   ffplay: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC32PLUS, V8+ Required, \
>   version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>
>
> when trying to view (play) a very short video stream (anim.mpg 121704
> bytes)
> there are stats on the tty but no video window is opened.
> my 'file' claims: anim.mpg: MPEG video stream data

could you try with git master?
Also do you have SDL installed? did 0.4.9 use SDL anybody know?
-r