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

[Joshua Pollak]

On Wednesday 26 December 2001 8:37, you wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> > 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 ***
>
> now i'm sure it's codecs.conf problem.
> remove _all_ of your codecs.conf files over your system, and use the only
> one from mplayer cvs or 0.60.

I recompiled with this version (below), as you said from CVS:

MPlayer CVS-011226-00:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

Then I copied the newly installed codecs.conf to ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf
make install also installs a copy in /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf, 
which I left there.

The problem is still not solved. 

I did (I trimmed a few of the permission errors):

/$ find -name codecs.conf                                                     
find: ./usr/src/lame3.70: Permission denied
./usr/src/MPlayer-0.60pre1/etc/codecs.conf
./usr/src/MPlayer-20011226/etc/codecs.conf
./usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf
find: ./etc/ppp: Permission denied
find: ./etc/chatscripts: Permission denied
find: ./home/abe: Permission denied
find: ./home/windhawk: Permission denied
find: ./home/sharon: Permission denied
find: ./home/nylon66: Permission denied
./home/pardsbane/.mplayer/codecs.conf
find: ./opt/lib/listar/Maildir: Permission denied
find: ./opt/src/kernel-crap/scripts/lxdialog: Permission denied

As you can see, the 4 codecs.conf's should not be a problem, two are not 
anywhere they could be causing trouble, and 3 are exact copies of each other 
(/usr/src/MPlayer-0.60pre1 is the different one)

I've currently tried 0.60pre1 and the tarballs dated 12/25 and 12/26, all of 
them have this problem...

Thanks for all your help, even without being able to play these few files, 
MPlayer is obviously invaluable.

Josh