[MPlayer-users] Sipro audio problem

[Stephen Stocker]

  Hi,

  I'm using SVGA (no X) with very few problems, thanks for thinking of us console users!

  My only major problem is with the Sipro audio files, every one I've tried gives the following error:

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MPlayer CVS-020930-04:43-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Pentium MMX P55C (Family: 5, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading /home/lpar/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 106 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/lpar/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz)
Input config file /home/lpar/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds

Playing dn20020911a.ra
Detected REAL file format!
skip_str: 12 bytes skipped
skip_str: 20 bytes skipped
skip_str: 4 bytes skipped
read_str: 4 bytes read
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 26995 (0x6973)
Channels: 1
Samplerate: 16000
avg byte/sec: 16000
Block align: 320
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 30
Unknown extra header dump: [0] [0] [6] [0] [3] [0] [1] [7] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] [4d] [44] [50] [52] [0] [0] [2] [6f] [0] [0] [0] [1] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] 
skip_str: 0 bytes skipped
skip_str: 16 bytes skipped
Clip info: 
 name: Democracy Now! - 9/11/02
 author: Pacifica Radio
 copyright: ©2002, Pacifica
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
ADecoder init failed :(
*** Try to upgrade /home/lpar/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound!!!
Video: no video!!!


Exiting... (End of file)

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  I've double-checked codecs.conf, which has the correct entry for this codec, read the manual (over a period of a month), tried everything I can possibly think of, and still the error. Btw, the Real COOK audio and all Real video codecs I've found work perfectly, with or without the realplayer 9 upgrade. Any ideas? Thanks.

  Steve