[MPlayer-users] Problem with old Real Player *.rm files.

[mplayerhq.hu at jamesplace.net]

On Wed January 19 2005 4:02 pm, Roberto Togni wrote:
> On 2005.01.19 22:41, mplayerhq.hu at jamesplace.net wrote:
> > I've got some videos *.rm files that were originally made for Real
> > Player 7.x
> > When I try to play them using MPlayer I get the audio, but no video.
> > I
> > have
> > no problem playing current Real Player links/files, so I'm assuming
> > this has
> > something to do with the age of the files?
> >
> > Any hints for playing/converting them?
> >
> > Thanks much.
>
> What video codec do they use?
> Are you using pre6 or CVS (there were a lot of changes in CVs on real
> demuxer)?
>
> Can you upload one file (ot the first 5-10Mb of it) to our ftp site
> mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/ ? else read bugreport.html and provide
> requested data.
>
> Ciao,
> Roberto
>
===

Thanks for the prompt reply. I had some other more urgent issues I needed to 
tackle. I'm a bit of a novice with this. Which may be part of the problem. 
The last time I used these files they were played with Real Player Basic v7.x


(I split off about 10MB from the start of one of the files and per your 
request I have placed it at:
 mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/SoS-01.rm

I'm running this on Fedora Core 3 with the following RPMs installed:

mencoder-1.0pre6-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-1.0pre6-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-linux-real-20040626-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-linux-xanim-20040626-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-linux-xanim-3ivx-20040704-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-20040704-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-dmo-20041107-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-indeo-20040704-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-mjpeg2k-20040704-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-qt-20041107-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-qt-extras-20040704-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-real-20041107-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-gui-1.0pre6-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-vidix-1.0pre6-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-vidix-nVidia-1.0pre6-1.i386.rpm
...and some font and skin RPMs.

When I play one of the files, MPlayer produces the following output:
---
[AV-Files]# mplayer SoS-01.rm
MPlayer 1.0pre6-RPM-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with 
--disable-runtime-cpudetection.

Warning unknown option cache_min at line 144
Warning unknown option cache_prefill at line 147

Syntax error in font desc: name 'File generated for koi8-r encoding using 
`Arial Regular' face (/mnt/DOS_C/winnt/Fonts/arial.ttf), ppem=24 by Nick 
Kurshev nickols_k at mail.ru'
Playing SoS-01.rm.
Audio file detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 32000->32000 (256.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm:pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 8000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 8000Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 8000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 8000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [oss] 8000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 8000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 8000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Video: no video
Starting playback...


Thanks again for any help you can provide.