[MPlayer-users] avi files - displayed to contact the author

[gabor farkas]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 04:10:35AM -0800, girija sannellappanavar wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Dear Sir
> 
> When I open avi files with mplayer it's displaying the
> following error
> 
>  mplayer -vo x11 test.avi 


are you sure that that file is an avi file?

bye,
gabor

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> MPlayer 0.90pre10-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy
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> CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Xeon Foster (Family: 8, Stepping:
> 2)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0
> SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2
> 
> Reading /home/girija/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
> '/home/girija/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or
> directory
> Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 44 audio &
> 110 video codecs
> font: can't open file:
> /home/girija/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> font: can't open file:
> /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer
> should be setuid root or /dev/rtc should be readable
> by the user.)
> Using usleep() timing
> Can't open input config file
> /home/girija/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or
> directory
> Can't open input config file
> /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or
> directory
> Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
> 
> Playing test.avi
> ============ Sorry, this file format is not
> recognized/supported =============
> === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please
> contact the author! ===
> 
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> 
> I would like to know the solution for this
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Girija
> 
> 
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