[MPlayer-users] Re: Nero Digital

[Nico Sabbi]

wesley7777 at softhome.net wrote:

> Nico Sabbi writes:
>
>> wesley7777 at softhome.net wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for your reply.  I am using MPlayer v1.0pre5 version of 
>>> Mplayer.  If this version of Mplayer does not have the latest 
>>> libavcodec and libfasad codec libraries is there a way to update 
>>> them without have to reinstall Mplayer?
>>> Nico Sabbi writes:
>>>
>>>> wesley7777 at softhome.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have several movies encoded in Nero Digital format. The files 
>>>>> have a *.mp4 extension. The video is encoded in Nero Digital 
>>>>> format and the audio is encoded in AAC. I have not been able to 
>>>>> play these movies in Mplayer.  Has anyone has success in playing 
>>>>> Nero Digital encoded videos in Mplayer?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>> yes, provided you have libavcodec and libfaad.
>>>> Did you use a recent version of mplayer, possibly a nighly cvs 
>>>> tarball?
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>>
>> no, but 1.0pre5 should suffice.
>> run mplayer -v file.mp4 >& err and post the log, please.
>
>
> wesley7777 at softhome.net wrote:
>
>> I could not get mplayer to produce a complete error log.  It started 
>> to create one, but because mplayer would lockup the error log could 
>> not be completed.  I did however copy what was displayed after I 
>> input the
>> mplayer -v test4.mp4 command.  I don't know if it will tell you 
>> anything, but thanks for the help.
>
>
>
> your logs indicate that both audio and video are correctly identified 
> and decoded, so what problem are you experiencing?
> BTW these mails belong to the mailing list
> I believe that the problem was that my computer was too unstable to 
> play these video files.  I removed some hardware and unnessary cabling 
> from the case which improved air flow.  I tried playing the files 
> again and they played fine.  I guess that it was a heat problem making 
> the computer freeze up.  I don't know why the computer would play 
> divx, xvid, DVD isos, fine and then freeze up on nero digital files 
> unless they are more cpu intensive or more senstive to output errors 
> from the cpu?  Thanks for the help.


it's very unlikely: mp4 are mov files with almost the same  codec as the 
usual xvid/divx in avi.
Tghe major difference is in the use of AAC audio, but faad can't lock 
your computer (yet :)
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