[MPlayer-users] Playing FLV files...

[Timur Elzhov]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:54:57PM -0400, Omair Muhi Kanwar wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>                       I wanted to know how to play FLV files because when I
> try them out it says something like "Unsupported Video codec" or "bad
> frame". I can ,however, the sound but not the video. I tried converting the
> FLV files to mpg using ffmpeg but that didn't help either.
> 
> Does anybody know which codec I should use and where to find it?

Once I succeeded to play flv file with mplayer, but I removed that file,
so could not provide log when it plays that format. But I looked at
ffmpeg sources, and found the sources for flv enc/dec. Please make sure,
that you libavformat/libavcodec libs compiled with flv support. I suggest
the way to rebuild ffmpeg from the sources, look at the log, be confirmed
that flv dec/enc sources are included in the build, then make mplayer
linked with that libs.


HTH,

Timur Elzhov
Warelex LLC