[MPlayer-users] Quicktime video doesn't play

[Jack Smith]

On 8/31/07, Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/31/07, Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/31/07, Jeremy Hansen <jebrhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > My first thought was that I might be missing the Quicktime codec even
> > > > though I saw the line
> > > > Selected video codec: [ffrpza] vfm: ffmpeg (QuickTime Apple Video)
> > > > so I downloaded Linux AMD64 20062003, untarred it and read the README
> > > > file.  Didn't know how to tell where to put them so I tried
> > > > /usr/local/lib/codecs, /usr/lib/codecs, /usr/lib/win32 and even
> > > > /usr/lib64/codecs.  Reran mplayer and got the same result.
> > >
> > > You need to rebuild mplayer with either the codecs in the directory
> > > mentioned in the README or specify where they are at. The ffrpza codec
> > > is one that is included with ffmpeg so it doesn't always do as well as
> > > the binary.
> > >
> > > It might also help to have a sample file for others to test it with.
> > >
> > > Good Luck
> > > Jeremy
> >
> > OK, I'm off to learn how to install mplayer (it just came with
> > Redhat).  If anyone cares to try the file that's messing me up, it's
> > attached.
> > Thanks,
> > Jack
>
> It isn't attached, it was too big.  It is at
> http://www.fast-forward.tv/blog/ if you want to download it.
>
> Jack

OK, still the same problem.  I used subversion and downloaded r24313.
The README said to put the binary codecs in /usr/local/lib/codecs
which I did.  Then I did a straight
./configure
make         and
make install
and ran mplayer and it still used ffrpza and still failed the same way.

[root at natsumi Download]# mplayer -fs *
MPlayer dev-SVN-r24313-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2

Playing Worldcon2007_01.mov.
ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
MOV: WARNING: Variable FourCC detected!?
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 0
[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 2
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 3
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 4
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 5
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 6
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 7
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 8
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 9
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 10
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 11
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 12
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 13
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 14
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 15
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 16
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 17
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 18
VIDEO:  [rpza]  320x240  16bpp  15.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffrpza] vfm: ffmpeg (QuickTime Apple Video)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: BGR 15-bit)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using BGR 15-bit as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
[swscaler @ 0xdb8470]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from bgr555 to yuv420p using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0xdb8470]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal
luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xdb8470]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal
chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xdb8470]SwScaler: using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical
scaling (YV12 like)
[swscaler @ 0xdb8470]SwScaler: 320x240 -> 320x240
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12  [fs]
[rpza @ 0xdbfa80]First chunk byte is 0x00 instead of 0xe1
[rpza @ 0xdbfa80]MOV chunk size != encoded chunk size; using MOV chunk size
[rpza @ 0xdbfa80]Unknown opcode 245 in rpza chunk. Skip remaining 602
bytes of chunk data.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
[rpza @ 0xdbfa80]First chunk byte is 0x00 instead of 0xe1??,?% 0 0
[rpza @ 0xdbfa80]MOV chunk size != encoded chunk size; using MOV chunk size
[rpza @ 0xdbfa80]Unknown opcode 253 in rpza chunk. Skip remaining 406
bytes of chunk data.
[rpza @ 0xdbfa80]First chunk byte is 0x00 instead of 0xe1??,?% 1 0
[rpza @ 0xdbfa80]MOV chunk size != encoded chunk size; using MOV chunk size

Help?

Thanks,
Jack

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