[MPlayer-users] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Decoder init failed :(

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 02 October 2006 at 16:29, Michael Reed wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to play a dvd on linux (CentOS 4.1) for the 1st time.  I'm
> getting a complaint about the video output device not being compatible w/
> the codec.  I've used both the default vo and also xv, but get the error
> with both.  I found a post that said "notice that it switches to a different
> codec after failing w/ the original one", so perhaps this isn't really my
> problem.  but if I keep reading the error, I don't see any other smoking
> guns or blatant errors.  Any hints?
> 
> Thanks,
> MR
> 
> [mreed at yugo ~]$ mplayer -v dvd://1 -vo xv
[...]
> MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
[...]
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
> Trying filter chain: vo
> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling)
> Trying filter chain: scale vo
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> VDecoder init failed :(

This is irrelevant, because the next decoder is initialized succesfully.

> Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
> Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
> ==========================================================================
[...]
> MPEG Stream reached EOF%  0.0% 0
> 0
> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> MPEG Stream reached EOF
> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> MPEG Stream reached EOF
> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> MPEG Stream reached EOF
> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> MPEG Stream reached EOF
> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> MPEG Stream reached EOF
> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> EOF code: 1   30  3%  1%  0.0% 0
> 0

There's your error. You're playing an empty title.

Regards,
R.

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