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

[Joshua Pollak]

On Wednesday 26 December 2001 8:03, you wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> > > try to remove -vmf 5 (or vfm=5 in config)
> >
> > Nope, didn't help.
>
> hmm. try -vc wmv7

Sorry, nope again... I should note this file does play with Media Player 8, 
but I so do hate rebooting to Windows. ;)

~$ mplayer -nofs -vc wmv7 Video/test.asf

MPlayer CVS-011225-00:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel  max cpuid level: 2
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Type: 6, Stepping: 3)
Testing OS support for SSE... yes.
Testing OS support for SSE unmasked exceptions... yes.
Tests of OS support for SSE passed.
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Reading /home/pardsbane/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 23 audio & 68 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/pardsbane/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Setting up lirc support...
Linux RTC init: open: Permission denied
Using usleep() timing
Playing Video/test.asf
Not an URL!
Detected ASF file format!
VIDEO:  [WMV1]  320x240  24bpp
[V] filefmt:6  fourcc:0x31564D57  size:320x240  fps:1000.00  ftime:=0.0010
Clip info:
 Name: 
 Author:
 Copyright:
 Comments:
Detected audio codec: [divx] drv:4 (DivX audio (WMA))
fs seg 0x40017000
Loading DLL: 'divxa32.acm'
AUDIO: srate=16000  chans=1  bps=2  sfmt=0x10  ratio: 1250->32000
Trying to force video codec driver family 5 ...
Can't find video codec for forced driver family, fallback to other drivers.
Can't find codec for video format 0x31564D57 !
*** Try to upgrade /home/pardsbane/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it's still not OK, then read DOCS/codecs.html!
*** free_stream() called ***