[MPlayer-users] mplayer dev-CVS-060430-14:41-4.0.4 bug

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 24 June 2006 at 18:18, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> $ /usr/bin/mplayer file.mpg
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
> 
> $ /usr/bin/mplayer -vf spp,scale file.mpg
> Option vf: spp doesn't exist.
> Error parsing option on the command line: -vf
> 91 audio & 206 video codecs
> 
> Using debian etch and the following repository:
> 
> # multimedia repository
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main

It's not a bug. Some filters are available only if you compile MPlayer
with statically linked libavcodec. Your packagers don't do that, so
complain to them, not us.

Regards,
R.

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