[MPlayer-users] unknown codec 0x66666974

[Joshua Crawford]

I just recently subscribed to the podcast from Make magazine
<http://makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/index.xml>, and it contains a
number of .m4b files. I was lucky, in that the first one I tried playing
(MAKE_2005-07-18.m4b) had JPEG images in it, and it worked fine. The rest
all have TIFF images, and it seems mplayer doesn't support TIFF (it's not
linked against libtiff, and there's no configure option I can see).

So, is there some outside codec I need installed? I have the Quicktime
codecs, from the all codecs tarball from April.

Mplayer output follows. The 'Generic track - not completely understood'
messages appeared with the working, JPEG-based, movie also.

mortarn at bruce:~/.podder/finished/Make.m4b$ gmplayer MAKE_2005-08-01.m4b
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron A Mendocino/Pentium II Dixon (Family: 6, Stepping: 5)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX



vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=8388622.
Playing /mnt/hdb2/home/mortarn/.podder/finished/Make.m4b/MAKE_2005-08-01.m4b.
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    ISO: File Type Major Brand: Apple iTunes AAC-LC Audio
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
--------------
MOV track #0: 710 chunks, 3823 samples
Audio bits: 16  chans: 1  rate: 22050
MOV: Found MPEG4 audio Elementary Stream Descriptor atom (51)!
Fourcc: mp4a
--------------
MOV track #1: 5 chunks, 5 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 1)
--------------
MOV track #2: 5 chunks, 5 samples
MOV: Found unknown movie atom indx (12)!
MOV: Found unknown movie atom tifc (12)!
Image size: 550 x 412 (24 bpp)
Display size: 160 x 160
Fourcc: tiff  Codec: 'TIFF (Uncompressed)'
--------------
MOV track #3: 5 chunks, 5 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 3)
--------------
MOV: longest streams: A: #0 (3823 samples)  V: #2 (5 samples)
VIDEO:  [tiff]  550x412  24bpp  0.059 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/2.27% (ratio: 4000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm:faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG2/MPEG4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=8388622.
==========================================================================
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x66666974.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le...
AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le...
Video: no video
Starting playback...
-- 
Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn

"Well, becoming a better-informed American isn't that hard. It just involves
opening your front door."
		-- Charly, alt.fan.robert-jordan
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