[FFmpeg-user] unable to play mpeg transcoded stream on mplayer or Vlc

[Swapnil Singh]

*Hi everyone,
*I was trying to transcode a mp4 file to mpg container using libx264 avc.
After some trails i was able to transcode it successfully.But was only able
to play the  the stream using ffplay but not with mplayer or Vlc.i am
including the logs for the playback and transcode below.Please guide.

trancode coomandline
ffmpeg -i 20130301_oblivion_trailer2i_4000.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -bufsize
500000000  -profile:v baseline -level:v 3  -s 720x576 -b:v 3.3M  -r 25
temp.mpg


*Using ffplay*
#ffplay temp.mpg
FFplay version 0.6.3-rpmfusion, Copyright (c) 2003-2010 the FFmpeg
developers
  built on May  5 2011 19:19:44 with gcc 4.5.1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1-4)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin
--datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --libdir=/usr/lib
--mandir=/usr/share/man --arch=i686 --extra-cflags='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=atom
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables' --extra-version=rpmfusion --enable-bzlib
--enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdirac --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame
--enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger
--enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx
--enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-avfilter
--enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared
--enable-gpl --disable-debug --disable-stripping --shlibdir=/usr/lib
--cpu=i686 --enable-runtime-cpudetect
  libavutil     50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1
  libavcodec    52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2
  libavformat   52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2
  libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
  libavfilter    1.19. 0 /  1.19. 0
  libswscale     0.11. 0 /  0.11. 0
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
[mpeg @ 0xb23017e0]max_analyze_duration reached
Input #0, mpeg, from 'temp.mpg':
  Duration: 00:02:30.64, start: 0.500000, bitrate: 3889 kb/s
    Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: h264, yuv420p, 720x576 [PAR 64:45 DAR 16:9],
25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
    Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 128 kb/s
  28.79 A-V: -0.000 s:0.0 aq=  319KB vq= 6662KB sq=    0B f=0/709   0/0

*Using mplayer *
mplayer temp.mpg
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
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 temp.mpg.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header.
Video: Cannot read properties.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   4.3 (04.3) of 148.8 (02:28.8)
0.2%


Exiting... (End of file)

*Using Vlc*
#vlc temp.mpg
VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x8b2b8fc] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc'
to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")