[MPlayer-users] new codec? or renamed one?

[Damian Gatabria]

Hi. 

uhmm.. recently i have received a small 
birthday greeting in the form of a small
video file. 

Apparently, the new way in which these
are made by windoze (hello DMCA and all that crap)
is a new one: the actual file was an .exe.

(tried on a windoze box, the .exe launched
WMP and played the video in question......
after doing who knows what to that machine... god
i hate MS.)

After what it seemed like an obviously futile
attempt to play it in wine, gave up trying
to play that file but forgot about it pretty quickly.

However, browsing my temp folder, i found
out that running that .exe had actually decompressed
an AVI file. i happily sent MPlayer to the task, but
unfortunately i can only get audio. there's
"Can't find codec matching selected 
-vo and video format 0x33363258!"

with your permission, i'll upload this. (barely
over 400 kb). Do you need it?

Oh, by the way, clicking on properties for
the extracted file on a Windoze box
displays this information:

Audio: 
 Length : 33secs.
 Transfer rate: 64kbps
 Sample size: 8bit
 Format : u CCIT law

Video: 
 Frame rate: 24 fps
 Data speed: 13kbps
 Sample size: 12bit
 Codec: H263DRV


here's my version and MPlayer's output.


[user at localhost tmp]$ mplayer -v
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer CVS-021130-02:54-3.2.1 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon 
(Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading /home/user/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 44 audio & 112 video codecs
Usage:   mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename



Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer CVS-021130-02:54-3.2.1 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon 
(Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading /home/user/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 44 audio & 112 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/user/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using usleep() timing

Playing peli.avi
Detected AVI file format!
VIDEO:  [X263]  176x144  12bpp  24,00 fps   34,9 kbps ( 4,3 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [alaw] aLaw/uLaw audio decoder
AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 8000->16000 (64,0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [ulaw] afm:alaw (uLaw)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
*** Try to upgrade /home/user/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
SDL: Samplerate: 8000Hz Channels: Stereo Format Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [sdl] 8000Hz 1ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
Building audio filter chain for 8000Hz/1ch/16bit -> 8000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Video: no video!!!
Start playing...
A:  -0,1  0,1% 0%    A:  -0,1  0,1% 0%    A:   0,1  0,1% 0%    A:   0,3  0,1% 
Exiting... (Quit)