[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] codecs.conf: can't play vorbis

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:02:22PM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi there,
> I noticed an odd behavior with ogg vorbis files and vorbis sound muxed
> into video files such as OGM and matroska.
> 
> If I try to play an ogg file, here's what MPlayer tells me
> 
> Playing /home/guillaume/media/rip/DIRTY_HARRY/audio/son.ogg.
> [Ogg] stream 0: audio (Vorbis), -aid 0
> Ogg file format detected.
> ==========================================================================
> Cannot find codec for audio format 0x73627276.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
> ==========================================================================
> Audio: no sound
> Video: no video
> 
> but if in codecs.conf I change the line
> 
> fourcc vrbs
> into:
> format 0x73627276
> 
> then everything plays now fine again. I attached a patch against
> codecs.conf that fixed the problem for me, but somehow I'm guessing the
> problem is somewhere else...
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> PS: I was tempted, at first, to fill a bug report, but I had so much fun
> trying to narrow down the problem and reading docs that I'm glad I
> didn't do it! ;-P

This is very strange. Playing ogg files works fine for me. Perhaps
there's some strange endian issue? Are you using big endian?

Rich