[MPlayer-users] Unplayable 1024x468x16 DIVX AVI

[Mike Melanson]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, domi wrote:

> > does it play with any other players? including windows ones?
> > mayeb the file uses non-standard divx codec...
> > afaik blizzard has its own codecs
> 
> well i downloaded it now, and tried with mplayer - and it plays it
> flawlessly (i think it's yesterdays cvs) here, with ffmpeg codecs
> (stunning quality btw)

	I downloaded the movie and tried it as well. No go (bails out in
init_video_codec). Then I updated my MPlayer CVS tree. Same thing. Then I
updated my FFMPEG libavcodec tree. Still no dice.

	I compared the output from your email to the output from my
session and figured out the issue: My MPlayer was trying to use this:
 Detected video codec: [odivx] drv:3 prio:0 (OpenDivX (MPEG-4 v2))
as the video codec. I moved this entry to the top of the codecs.conf file
(for lack of a better strategy):

videocodec ffodivx
  info "FFmpeg OpenDivX"
  status working
  fourcc DIVX,divx
  fourcc DIV1,div1 divx
  fourcc MP4S,mp4s      ; ISO MPEG-4 Video V1
  fourcc xvid,XVID,XviD
  format 0x4
  driver ffmpeg
  dll mpeg4 ;opendivx
  out YV12

And now it works. And yes, the video is quite stunning...:)

-- 
	-Mike Melanson