[MPlayer-users] "FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo)" Cause?

[William Norfleet]

Overall, mplayer seems to work fine on my machine.  With one DVD (with
English subtitles) the error message in the above Subject line is
produced.  What might cause this?  -vf spp,scale (as suggested in the
run below) had no effect.  Mplayer is compiled from source from today's
CVS (and ffmpeg), and the "all" codec package is installed (I think).
The DVD plays fine under the player bundled with Mac OS X.  Here's a
complete run:


[bill at desk ~]$ mplayer dvd:// -slang en
MPlayer dev-CVS-051227-08:41-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron Morgan,Camaro (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE


Playing dvd://.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 1 titles on this DVD.
There are 12 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
No matching DVD subtitle language found!
Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html.

<snip>

Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html.

<snip>

Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html.
VIDEO:  MPEG1  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0
kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
a52: CRC check failed!
AC3: 2.0 (stereo)  48000 Hz  192.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-
v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little
Endian
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le ->
48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
Starting playback...
a52: error at resampling

FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).

alsa-uninit: pcm closed

Exiting... (End of file)
[bill at desk ~]$

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