[MPlayer-users] I read the FAQ! (Black screen with audio)

[Joshua Pollak]

On Wednesday 26 December 2001 7:21, you wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> > Trying to force video codec driver family 5 ...
>
> hmm
>
> > Can't find video codec for forced driver family, fallback to other
> > drivers. Detected video codec: [null] drv:0 prio:0 (NULL codec (no
> > decoding!))
>
> try to remove -vmf 5 (or vfm=5 in config)

Nope, didn't help.

>
> also, check if you have WMV8 in codecs.conf
>

To be anal about it, (only because I just discovered 'less' is), I don't have 
WMV8 in the codecs.conf, however, I do have a 'wmv8' section in codecs.conf.

-Josh