[MPlayer-users] dvd-rip doesnt play on MS Windows boxens

[Farrell Farahbod]

i've been encoding some of my dvd's recently with the following
commands:

mencoder rip.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vpass=1:vhq -sws 2 -vop
scale=640:272,crop=718:360:0:58 -o rip-compressed.avi

mencoder rip.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=96 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vpass=2:vhq -sws 2 -vop
scale=640:272,crop=718:360:0:58 -o rip-compressed.avi

and the resulting file looks really nice, and sounds really nice...in
linux. but in windows it only plays the audio.

does anyone know why this is so? does Windows Media Player 7 not have
the appropriate codec to decode the video portion of my rips?

if it helps, here is the output i get when playing the file in linux
with mplayer:

[upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ mplayer my\ files/dvd-rips/Independence\
Day.avi


MPlayer 0.90pre7-3.1 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping:
4)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

Reading /home/upgrdman/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
'/home/upgrdman/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 107 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/upgrdman/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
chars)
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_pie_on): Permission denied
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/upgrdman/.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 my files/dvd-rips/Independence Day.avi
Detected AVI file format!
VIDEO:  [DIVX]  640x272  24bpp  29.97 fps  614.0 kbps (74.9 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Detected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, sfmt: 0x10 (2 bps), ratio: 4000->192000 (32.0
kbit)
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0" => local
display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Detected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
Start playing...
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 272 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 640x272 => 640x272 Planar YV12 
Broken pipe 271.0 A-V:  0.002 ct:  0.086  8122/8122   4%  5%  1.0% 0 0
0%
[upgrdman at farrell upgrdman]$ 

thanx,

upgrdman