[MPlayer-users] alaw audio codec in MOVs supported?

[Farrell Farahbod]

i just deceided to try to play some of the MOVs on my Flash 5 Creative
Web Animation Book's cd...and the video plays nicely, but i get no
audio. with gmplayer it says it cant find the appropriate audio codec,
and with mplayer from the command line, it mentions the audio before
playing the file, but above the statistics at the bottom of my terminal,
it says "Audio: no sound!!!".

by looking where it did mention the audio track, it says:

Playing Introducing Flash2.mov
Detected QuickTime/MOV file format!
--------------
MOV track #0: 2131 chunks, 0 samples
Audio bits: 16  chans: 1  rate: 11025
Fourcc: alaw
--------------
MOV track #1: 194 chunks, 194 samples
Image size: 640 x 480 (16 bpp)
Display size: 640 x 480
Fourcc: rle   Codec: 'Animation'
--------------

so im guessing that track 0 is the audio track, and that it contains
'alaw' audio. so i went to your codecs status page, and found the codec
listed, but no comments. so im not sure if this means alaw audio is
supported, is buggy, etc...

if it helps, im use CVS from sept 24, 2002, with libavcodec, and win32
(lastest from your d/l page) codecs installed.

if someone could clarify this, i would greatly appreciate it.

thanx,

farrell f. / upgrdman

p.s. here's all of the output i got in my terminal window:

[upgrdman at farrell Ch 02?Getting Started]$ mplayer Introducing\
Flash2.mov 


MPlayer CVS-020924-17:21-3.1 (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 & 106 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_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
startup 
scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/upgrdman/.mplayer/input.conf : No
such file o
r 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 Introducing Flash2.mov
Detected QuickTime/MOV file format!
--------------
MOV track #0: 2131 chunks, 0 samples
Audio bits: 16  chans: 1  rate: 11025
Fourcc: alaw
--------------
MOV track #1: 194 chunks, 194 samples
Image size: 640 x 480 (16 bpp)
Display size: 640 x 480
Fourcc: rle   Codec: 'Animation'
--------------
==========================================================================
Can't find codec for audio format 0x77616C61!
*** Try to upgrade /home/upgrdman/.mplayer/codecs.conf from
etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0" => local
display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [qtrle] Quicktime Animation (RLE) decoder
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred csp: BGR 15-bit)
Couldn't find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using BGR 15-bit as output csp (no 2)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from BGR 15-bit to Planar YV12 using MMX2
VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12 
Detected video codec: [qtrle] vfm:qtrle (Quicktime Animation (RLE))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound!!!
Start playing...
Broken pipe 3   0%  1%  0.0% 0 0 0%
[upgrdman at farrell Ch 02?Getting Started]$
-- 
Farrell Farahbod <upgrdman at mindspring.com>