[Mplayer-advusers] codec tsccvid.dll: playback fails if vid.res. is 1024:768 (device is incompatible with this codec)

[Thomas]

Thanks for your answer.

I wouldn't have posted to the advanced user list if
a solution for my problem were simple or at least an anwser that the codec doesn't work. 
So I've read the mplayer output, FAQ,searched the lists and tried different computers
and output devices (xv,mga,xmga,dxr3,x11,fb,dga) running X11 (4.3.0)
with different scale parameters. Nothing works for me.
Beginners question: How to allocate more xv space ? My Computers 
have a matrox G400 32MB (1024:768) and a dxr3 and the other one a 
nvidia Geforce2MX with 64MB and a 19" 1280:1024 resolution running self compiled Xfree86 4.3.0.
This is also configured in my XF86Config with correct agpgart, mtrr sizes and memory asignments.
Next time I'll post the whole mplayer debug output but in my opinion 
this wouldn't be helpful. I'm not sure if the output error message is correct.
Could the reason be the color space and changed color format . 
Are there known problems with 1024:768 vid res movies ? 
This aren't advanced questions but I didn't get any answers on the users list for my problem.
I'm looking for someone who post a working output/command line option 
but I'm believing that there is no working solution with this codec.
Thomas


On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:02, you wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:08:44PM +0100, Thomas Kranz wrote:
> > Hi mplayer-users and developers,
> >
> > I'm posting here because I got a tscc-codec problem and no
> > answer/solution from the users list. The codec is in the codec-package of
> > mplayer.
> > I've a severe problem: I have here some lectures recorded with a screen
> > capture tool developed by Techsmith. The playback of videos with 800:600
> > works fine but the new lectures are recorded with 1024:768 and the
> > playback with the latest mplayer doesn't work:
> >
> > Opening video decoder: [vfw] Win32/VfW video codecs
> > ======= Win32 (VFW) VIDEO Codec init =======
> > Loading codec DLL: 'tsccvid.dll'
> > get_path('registry') -> '/home/thomas/.mplayer/registry'
> > Loaded DLL driver tsccvid.dll
> > ICDecompressGetFormatSize ret: 40
> > ICDecompressGetFormat OK
> > VDec: vo config request - 1024 x 768 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
> > [PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 9.
> > 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 :(
> > Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x63637374.
> > Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
>
> If you can't RTFb (NEVER cut mplayer output!) then your post probably
> belongs on -users, not -advusers...
>
> > "selected video_out device" is incompatible with this codec is the first
> > hint for me, so I tried different output devices and x11 color depth - no
> > success. Has anybody a hint or solution to playback the video.
>
> Your xv driver doesn't support video that big. Either see if you can
> configure the X server to reserve more space for xv, or scale the
> video down with software scaling (slow), or use a different vo (e.g.
> x11, which is slow, or maybe xvidix if possible).
>
> Rich