[MPlayer-users] gentoo: mplayer plays audio files but DVDs play silent

Whilom Chime whilom_chime at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 19 21:55:18 CEST 2007


This is almost certainly some kind of configuration issue I can't see in the 
forest of relevant details.  I have alsa kernel support on my gentoo 
install.  I emerged mplayer, it played mp3 files fine.  I tried to play a 
DVD, and mplayer complained of unavailable codecs (details below) so I 
emerged several codec packages and re-emerged mplayer.  Still no joy.

"mplayer -ac help" clearly lists the codecs mplayer is looking for (details 
below.)  Searching the relevant mailing lists it seems that the kinds of 
error messages I'm getting were historically common, but not in recent 
times.  Hence I suspect a configuration issue.  But in all the (dozens) of 
threads I followed, it was clear that codecs were actually  missing, and 
probably would not have been reported by "mplayer -ac help".

During my own testing, I also discovered mplayer won't play m4a files, 
reporting a missing faad codec which is also clearly listed by "mplayer -ac 
help".

Rather frustrsted, I appreciate any help!

Whilom

Details:

"mplayer -vo help":

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:
Available video output drivers:
        xv      X11/Xv
        x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
        xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
        gl      X11 (OpenGL)
        gl2     X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
        sdl     SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
        null    Null video output
        mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
        png     PNG file
        jpeg    JPEG file
        gif89a  animated GIF output


"mplayer -ao help":
MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:
Available audio output drivers:
        oss     OSS/ioctl audio output
        alsa    ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output
        arts    aRts audio output
        esd     EsounD audio output
        sdl     SDLlib audio output
        mpegpes Mpeg-PES audio output
        null    Null audio output
        pcm     RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

"mplayer -ac help":

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:
Available audio codecs:
ac:         afm:      status:   info:  [lib/dll]
wma9dmo     dmo       working   Windows Media Audio 9 DMO  [wma9dmod.dll]
wmadmo      dmo       working   Windows Media Audio DMO  [wmadmod.dll]
wma9spdmo   dmo       working   Windows Media Audio 9 Speech DMO  
[wmspdmod.dll]
wma9spdshow dshow     working   Windows Media Audio 9 Speech DShow  
[wmavds32.ax]
ffqdm2      ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg QDM2 audio decoder  [qdm2]
qdmc        qtaudio   working   QuickTime QDMC/QDM2 audio decoders  
[QuickTime.qts]
qclp        qtaudio   working   QuickTime QCLP audio decoder  
[QuickTime.qts]
qtmace3     qtaudio   working   QuickTime MACE3 audio decoder  
[QuickTime.qts]
qtmace6     qtaudio   working   QuickTime MACE6 audio decoder  
[QuickTime.qts]
ffra144     ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg RealAudio 1.0  [real_144]
ffra288     ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg RealAudio 2.0  [real_288]
ffcook      ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg COOK audio decoder  [cook]
ffatrc      ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg Atrac 3 audio decoder  [atrac 3]
ra144       realaud   working   RealAudio 1.0  [14_4.so.6.0]
ra144win    realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio 1.0  [14_43260.dll]
ra144mac    realaud   working   Mac OS X RealAudio 1.0  [14_4.shlb]
ra288       realaud   working   RealAudio 2.0  [28_8.so.6.0]
ra288win    realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio 2.0  [28_83260.dll]
ra288mac    realaud   working   Mac OS X RealAudio 2.0  [28_8.shlb]
ra10cook    realaud   working   RealPlayer 10 COOK audio  [cook.so]
racook      realaud   working   RealAudio COOK  [cook.so.6.0]
ra10cookwin realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio 10 COOK  [cook.dll]
racookwin   realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio COOK  [cook3260.dll]
racookmac   realaud   working   Mac OS X RealAudio COOK  
[cook.bundle/Contents/MacOS/cook]
rasipr      realaud   working   RealAudio Sipro  [sipr.so.6.0]
ra10sipr    realaud   working   RealPlayer 10 RealAudio Sipro  [sipr.so]
ra10siprwin realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio 10 Sipro  [sipr.dll]
rasiprwin   realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio Sipro  [sipr3260.dll]
rasiprmac   realaud   working   Mac OS X RealAudio Sipro  
[sipr.bundle/Contents/MacOS/sipr]
raatrc      realaud   working   RealAudio ATRAC3  [atrc.so.6.0]
ra10atrc    realaud   working   RealPlayer 10 RealAudio ATRAC3  [atrc.so]
ra10atrcwin realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio 10 ATRAC3  [atrc.dll]
raatrcwin   realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio ATRAC3  [atrc3260.dll]
raatrcmac   realaud   working   Mac OS X RealAudio ATRAC3  
[atrc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/atrc]
imaadpcm    imaadpcm  working   IMA ADPCM
msadpcm     msadpcm   working   MS ADPCM
dk4adpcm    imaadpcm  working   Duck DK4 ADPCM (rogue format number)
dk3adpcm    dk3adpcm  working   Duck DK3 ADPCM (rogue format number)
ffroqaudio  ffmpeg    working   Id RoQ File Audio Decoder  [roq_dpcm]
ffsmkaud    ffmpeg    problems  FFmpeg Smacker Audio  [smackaud]
ffdsicinaudio ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg Delphine CIN audio  [dsicinaudio]
ff4xmadmpcm ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg 4XM ADPCM audio  [adpcm_4xm]
ffadpcmimaws ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg Westwood IMA ADPCM audio  
[adpcm_ima_ws]
ffwssnd1    ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg Westwood SND1  [ws_snd1]
ffinterplaydpcm ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg Interplay DPCM audio  
[interplay_dpcm]
ffadpcmea   ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg EA ADPCM audio  [adpcm_ea]
ffxandpcm   ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg XAN DPCM audio  [xan_dpcm]
ffadpcmthp  ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg THP ADPCM audio  [adpcm_thp]
libdv       libdv     working   raw DV audio decoder (libdv)  [libdv.so.2]
ffdv        ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg DV audio decoder  [dvaudio]
faad        faad      working   FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder  
[libfaad2]
ffflac      ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg FLAC audio decoder  [flac]
ffalac      ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg ALAC audio decoder  [alac]
fftta       ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg True Audio (TTA) decoder  [tta]
ffwavpack   ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg WavPack audio decoder  [wavpack]
ffshorten   ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg Shorten audio decoder  [shorten]
pcm         pcm       working   Uncompressed PCM
divx        acm       working   DivX audio (WMA)  [divxa32.acm]
msadpcmacm  acm       working   MS ADPCM  [msadp32.acm]
mp3         mp3lib    working   mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3
ffpcmdaud   ffmpeg    untested  D-Cinema audio (FFmpeg)  [pcm_s24daud]
ffwmav1     ffmpeg    untested  DivX audio v1 (FFmpeg)  [wmav1]
ffwmav2     ffmpeg    untested  DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg)  [wmav2]
ffmac3      ffmpeg    untested  Macintosh Audio Compression and Expansion 
3:1  [mace3]
ffmac6      ffmpeg    untested  Macintosh Audio Compression and Expansion 
6:1  [mace6]
ffsonic     ffmpeg    untested  FFmpeg Sonic  [sonic]
ffmp3on4    ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg Multi-channel MPEG layer-3 on MP4 
audio decoder  [mp3on4]
ffmp3       ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG layer-3 audio decoder  [mp3]
ffmp3adu    ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG layer-3 adu audio decoder  
[mp3adu]
ffmp2       ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG layer-1 and layer-2 audio 
decoder  [mp2]
mad         libmad    working   libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3  [libmad]
mp3acm      acm       working   MPEG layer-3  [l3codeca.acm]
imaadpcmacm acm       working   IMA ADPCM  [imaadp32.acm]
msgsm       msgsm     working   MS GSM
msgsmacm    acm       working   MS GSM  [msgsm32.acm]
msnaudio    acm       working   MSN AUDIO  [msnaudio.acm]
alaw        alaw      working   aLaw
ulaw        alaw      working   uLaw
dvdpcm      dvdpcm    working   Uncompressed DVD/VOB LPCM
a52         liba52    working   AC3-liba52  [liba52]
ac3         libac3    working   AC3-libac3  [libac3]
ffdca       ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg DTS  [dca]
ffmusepack7 ffmpeg    working   Musepack sv7 audio codec  [mpc sv7]
musepack    mpcdec    working   Musepack audio codec
ffamrnb     ffmpeg    working   AMR Narrowband  [libamr_nb]
ffamrwb     ffmpeg    working   AMR Wideband  [libamr_wb]
ffadcpmswf  ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg's ADPCM Flash-variant  [adpcm_swf]
voxware     dshow     working   VoxWare  [voxmsdec.ax]
acelp       dshow     working   ACELP.net Sipro Lab Audio Decoder  
[acelpdec.ax]
ffimc       ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg Intel Music Coder  [imc]
imc         acm       working   Intel Music Coder  [imc32.acm]
iac25       acm       working   Indeo audio  [iac25_32.ax]
ffctadp32   ffmpeg    working   Creative ADPCM native codec  [adpcm_ct]
ctadp32     acm       working   Creative ADPCM codec  [ctadp32.acm]
sc4         acm       working   SC4 : Micronas speech codec (ADPCM, MPman 
recording)  [mi-sc4.acm]
hwac3       hwac3     working   AC3 through S/PDIF
hwdts       hwac3     working   DTS through S/PDIF
ffvorbis    ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg Vorbis decoder  [vorbis]
vorbis      libvorbis working   OggVorbis Audio Decoder  [libvorbis]
speex       speex     working   Speex Audio Decoder  [speex]
vivoaudio   acm       working   Vivo G.723/Siren Audio Codec  [vivog723.acm]
g72x        g72x      crashing  G.711/G.721/G.723  [g72x.c]
ffg726      ffmpeg    working   Sharp G.726 Audio  [g726]
g726        acm       untested  Sharp G.726 Audio  [scg726.acm]
atrac3      acm       problems  Sony ATRAC3  [atrac3.acm]
ALF2        acm       working   ALF2  [alf2cd.acm]
fftruespeech ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg TrueSpeech  [truespeech]
truespeech  acm       working   DSP Group TrueSpeech(TM)  [tssoft32.acm]
voxwarert24 acm       working   VoxWare RT24 speech codec  [nsrt2432.acm]
lhacm       acm       working   Lernout & Hauspie CELP and SBC codecs  
[lhacm.acm]
TwinVQ      vqf       working   VQF codec by NTTLabs  [tvqdec.dll]
hwmpa       hwmpa     working   MPEG audio pass-through for hardware MPEG 
decoders

"mplayer song.mp3":

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:

Playing /media/audio/library/Erasure/Erasure/9angel.mp3.
Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...

"mplayer song.m4a":

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:

Playing 01 This sentence will ruin_save your.m4a.
ISO: File Type Major Brand: Apple iTunes AAC-LC Audio
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 0
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6134706D.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Video: no video

"mplayer dvd://3":
MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:

Playing dvd://3.
There are 4 titles on this DVD.
There are 14 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language:  aid: 128.
number of audio channels on disk: 1.
number of subtitles on disk: 0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  7700.0 kbps (962.5 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested audio codec family [ac3] (afm=libac3) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested audio codec family [hwac3] (afm=hwac3) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x2000.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 2160x1620 Planar YV12
V:   2.3  62/ 62 108% 13%  0.0% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)


"mplayer -aid 128 dvd://3":

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:

Playing dvd://3.
There are 4 titles on this DVD.
There are 14 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language:  aid: 128.
number of audio channels on disk: 1.
number of subtitles on disk: 0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  7700.0 kbps (962.5 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested audio codec family [ac3] (afm=libac3) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested audio codec family [hwac3] (afm=hwac3) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x2000.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 2160x1620 Planar YV12
V:   8.0 235/235 27%  7%  0.0% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)

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