[MPlayer-users] avi wont play in windows - help please!!!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:19:01PM +1200, lzha022 at ec.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi Rich,
> 
> For this file, if i play it with windows media player version 6.4, it can not
> play at all and gives me the error: "Can not play back the video straem: no
> suitable decompressor could be found".
> 
> While if i play it using version 9.0, it is playing, but i can not see the
> picture which is made up of many sqaures(strange shapes) of differenct colors.
> 
> Any idea?

One idea...are the sizes of the png files all the same, and both width
and height a multiple of 2 (or better yet 4 or 16)? If not, this might
be causing problems; use -vop expand=w:h or crop=w:h to add a black
border or crop the images down so the size is good.

If you still can't figure out the problem, play the file you generated
with mplayer -v and post the FULL output of mplayer here for us to
look at.

Rich