[MEncoder-users] V210 Codec

[Larry Reznick]

P.J. Trudell wrote:
> I hope someone working with the v210 codec can point me in the right direction.  I had it working once but had to wipe the machine and I can't seem to get there again.
>
> Every time I try to play (using mplayer) or convert a video with v210 I get the following error.  I have tried recompiling from source and all the codecs I could get my hands on, but I can't seem to get it to work again. 
>
> Thanks.
>
> pj at padiwan:~/Desktop/VideoTest$ mencoder -nosound -ovc raw -of rawvideo -frames 100 infile.mov -o outfile.dv
>
> MEncoder dev-SVN-r28127-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
> CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>
> success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x64a95960
> libavformat file format detected.
> [lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
> [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
> VIDEO:  [v210]  720x486  24bpp  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
> [V] filefmt:44  fourcc:0x30313276  size:720x486  fps:29.970  ftime:=0.0334
> Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
> Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [qtvideo] Quicktime Video decoder
> QuickTime6.3 DLLs found
> QuickTime.qts patched!!! old entry=0x6693c3e0
> theQuickTimeDispatcher catched -> 0x6693c3e0
> WARNING! Invalid Ptr handle!
>
> ### Searching for QuickTime plugins (*.qtx) at /usr/lib/win32...
> ### FindNext: AvidQTAVUICodec.qtx
> ### FindNext: BeHereiVideo.qtx
> ### FindNext: QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx
> ### FindNext: QuickTimeEssentials.qtx
> theQuickTimeDispatcher catched -> 0x6693c3e0
> theQuickTimeDispatcher catched -> 0x6693c3e0
> Cannot find requested component
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30313276.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
> ==========================================================================
>
> Exiting...
>
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Download the Blackmagic v210 codec, install it, and modify your copy of 
codecs.conf to include the configuration for it. You can find a copy of 
the configuration text at 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2008-February/071810.html 
but I have changed the output format to RGB32.

The distributed copy of codecs.conf also has a reference to the fourcc 
v210 for a qtcine (CineWave) using the qtvideo driver. However, 
something about it does not work. With the Blackmagic codec I've never 
needed to worry about it for my own needs.

I hope that helps.

--Larry