[MPlayer-users] Having difficulties with ASF files

[Dunphy Richard-rdunph01]

Hi,

I've been using mplayer for some time - and it's been great..

I've just upgraded my machine to SuSE 8.1 and am running into a few difficulties.

One good piece of news is that SuSE ships mplayer as part of the distro. Unfortunately I can't get some asf files that played ok previously to work.

When I run mplayer -vo sdl -nosound -v "asf_file" I get:

MPlayer 0.90pre6-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with RUNTIME CPU Detection - warning, it's not optimal! To get best performance, recompile mplayer from sources with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading /home/rik/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/rik/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 104 video codecs
CommandLine:get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/rik/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
 '-vo' 'sdl' '-v' '-nosound' '522_Revelations.asf'
font: can't open file: /home/rik/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (204 chars)
Linux RTC init error: Permission denied
Using usleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/rik/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/rik/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Parsing input config file /etc/input.conf
Input config file /etc/input.conf parsed : 50 binds
Setting up lirc support...
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed opening lirc support!
You won't be able to use your remote control

Playing 522_Revelations.asf
Not an URL!
File size is 20719353 bytes
Checking for YUV4MPEG2
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
Checking for NuppelVideo
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
Checking for MOV
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
Checking for VIVO
header block 1 size: 38
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
Checking for REAL
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398460  
sync_mpeg_ps: seems to be ES/PES stream...
MPEG Stream reached EOF
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)  
MPEG packet stats: p100: 138  p101: 6  PES: 3705  MP3: 287 
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x839af48  
==> Found audio stream: 0
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8398fc0  
DEMUXER: freeing sh_audio at 0x8399978  
============= Sorry, this file format not recognized/supported ===============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! ===

vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..

Exiting... (End of file)

I have installed the video codes 0.60 to /lib/win32. These have always worked up until now.

Any ideas?

Thanks
RikD.