[MPlayer-users] No video output with a dnxhd encoded video (AVdn)

[Nicolas Jauffret]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:51:21PM +0100, Nicolas Jauffret wrote:
>   
>> I have  no video output playing a AVID "dnxhd" encoded video.
>>
>> Here is the output of a svn freshly compiled mplayer :
>>
>> *** without modifying ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf :
>>
>> $ mplayer myvideo.mov
>> MPlayer dev-SVN-r26228-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
>> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Stepping: 4)
>> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>> 117 audio & 241 video codecs
>>
>> Playing myvideo.mov.
>> libavformat file format detected.
>> [lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
>> VIDEO:  [AVdn]  1920x1080  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
>> ==========================================================================
>> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x6E645641.
>> Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
>> ==========================================================================
>>
>> *** modifying ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf : adding "fourcc AVdn" into the 
>> "videocodec ffmjpeg" section
>>     
>
> Since dnxhd is not MJPEG it's hardly surprising that it doesn't work...
> Provide a sample file and I'll add the proper stuff to codecs.conf.
I provided a sample to Reimar Döffinger and he successfully
updated the codecs.conf so mplayer can read dnxhd videos.
Thanks to him.
Regards,

Nick