Hello, I upgraded to -pre5 today (created .deb from source) I cannot play / encode from tv anymore. This is what I did: planetzork:/etc# mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:input=2:outfmt=yv12:width=720:height=576:norm=pal:noaudi o -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000 -vop crop=696:564:12:0,pp=0x20000 -vc rawyv12 -v -e ndpos 01:00:00 -o /home/test.avi MEncoder 0.90pre5-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directo ry Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 34 audio & 94 video codecs File not found: 'frameno.avi' get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/root/.mplayer/font/font.desc' font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay Selected driver: v4l name: Video 4 Linux input author: Alex Beregszaszi <alex@naxine.org> comment: under development Selected device: saa7134[0] Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping Device type: 43 Supported sizes: 48x32 => 720x576 Inputs: 3 0: Television: tuner audio tv camera (tuner:1, norm:0) 1: Composite1: (tuner:0, norm:0) 2: Composite2: (tuner:0, norm:0) Audio devices: 1 0: audio: muted=no volume=32768 bass=0 treble=0 balance=0 mode=(null) channels: 0, samplerate: 44100, samplesize: 0, format: Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) mbuf: size=14155776, frames=8 ioctl dsp getfmt: 0 Supported formats: 1f8 ioctl dsp setfmt: 0 ioctl dsp stereo: 0 (req: 0) ioctl dsp speed: 0 ioctl dsp trigger: -1 trigger: 7d00 ioctl dsp trigger: -1 ioctl dsp getblocksize: 0 blocksize: 4096 Requested width: 720 Requested height: 576 Using input 'Composite2' Selected norm: pal Tuner isn't capable to set norm! Selected input hasn't got a tuner! success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x0 stream_seek: WARNING! Can't seek to 0x0 ! Detected TV! ;-) ==> Found video stream: 0 Output format: Planar YV12 fps: 25.000000, frametime: 0.040000 Output size: 720x576 palette: 15, depth: 12, bytesperline: 1080 Picture values: Depth: 12, Palette: 15 (Format: Planar YV12) Brightness: 32896, Hue: 32896, Colour: 33026, Contrast: 35090 [V] filefmt:9 fourcc:0x32315659 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400 libavcodec: CPU flags: mmx mmxext 3dnow Opening video filter: [expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1 (-1=autodetect) osd: 1 Opening video filter: [crop=696:564:12:0] Crop: 696 x 564, 12 ; 0 Opening video filter: [pp=0x20000] [crop] query(Planar YV12) -> 1 [crop] query(Planar I420) -> 1 [crop] query(Planar IYUV) -> 1 ========================================================================== Forced video codec: rawyv12 Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video VDecoder init failed :( Can't find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x32315659 ! get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf' *** Try to upgrade /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf *** If it's still not OK, then read DOCS/codecs.html! Exiting... /etc/codecs.conf is from source package and copying it to /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf does not help either. Regards, Jogi -- Well, yeah ... I suppose there's no point in getting greedy, is there? << Calvin & Hobbes >>