[MPlayer-users] Unable to play MPEG4's on Solaris

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 10/10/05, Derek E. Lewis <dlewis at solnetworks.net> wrote:
> I'm using the latest CVS sources from 10 October 2005 19:39 GMT; I'm
> receiving this error when trying to play an MPEG4 (XviD encoded):
>
> MPlayer dev-CVS-051010-19:24-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Sun Sparc
>
> Playing Star Trek - DS9 - 4x13 - Crossfire.avi.
> AVI file format detected.
> VIDEO:  [XVID]  576x432  24bpp  23.976 fps  904.0 kbps (110.3 kbyte/s)
> Clip info:
>  Software: Nandub v1.0rc2
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
> ==========================================================================
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Cannot find codec 'mpeg4' in libavcodec...
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Requested video codec family [xvid] (vfm=xvid) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
> Requested video codec family [odivx] (vfm=odivx) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
> Requested video codec family [divx4] (vfm=divx4) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x44495658.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
> ==========================================================================
> Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16be -> 0Hz/0ch/s8...
> ao2: 48000 Hz  2 chans  s16be [0x8]
> AO: [sun] 48000Hz 2ch s16be (2 B/s)
> Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16be ->
> 48000Hz/2ch/s16be...
> Video: no video
> Starting playback...
>
>
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: play_audio
>
> I've spoken to another Solaris/mplayer user and they're encountering the
> same problems.  DVDs play fine.
>
> The system, itself, is an SB1000 /w dual UltraSPARC-III processors
> running Solaris 10.  MPlayer was built with "./configure
> --prefix=/home/dlewis/bin/mplayer --disable-gl --disable-sdl", medialib
> enabled, and -O2 -mcpu=v9 optimizations using gcc 3.4.2.

it _could_ be that you have a codecs.conf file lying around... please
make sure there's none read by MPlayer on startup.

Guillaume
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