[MPlayer-users] tscc.dll codec playback video fails with 1024:768 (complete bug report) - more users needs help

[Thomas]

Simply solution found:
The codecs.conf entry has to be updated from out "BGR15 flip" to out "BGR15,BGR16 flip"
please fix this in the official release of mplayer:

codecs.conf:

; sample videos: http://www.techsmith.com/products/camtasia/examplevideos.asp
videocodec camtasia
  info "TechSmith Camtasia Screen Codec"
  status working
  fourcc TSCC,tscc
  driver vfw
  dll "tsccvid.dll"
  out BGR15,BGR24 flip





On Sunday 15 February 2004 01:29, Thomas wrote:
> Hi mplayer-users and developers,
>
> I would like to describe our problem as precisely as possible due to
> the mplayer bug reporting faq:
>
> The mplayer fails with video out on different vo drivers if we play a
> lecture avi captured with the tscc codec from Techsmith.
> The codec works fine with 800:600 video size but the new lecture
> is captured with 1024:768 and maybe a different colorspace.
> So this is the problem. Some players on windows also fails but
> the original camtasia player can play it in windows.
> I uploaded a 1MB sample on
> http://mitglied.lycos.de/twometer/Download/tscc.avi
>
> and an old working sample with 800:600 size to
> http://mitglied.lycos.de/twometer/Download/tscc_working.avi
>
> and here is my mplayer log cvs-snapshot from 20040214 debug=3 -v in the
> attachment.
>
> Here is the error reporting part of the log:
>
> ======= Win32 (VFW) VIDEO Codec init =======
> Loading codec DLL: 'tsccvid.dll'
> get_path('registry') -> '/home/thomas/.mplayer/registry'
> Loaded DLL driver tsccvid.dll
> ICDecompressGetFormatSize ret: 40
> ICDecompressGetFormat OK
> VDec: vo config request - 1024 x 768 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
> [PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 9.
> Trying filter chain: vo
> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling)
> Trying filter chain: scale vo
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x63637374.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
>
>
> Hopefully there is someone out there to solve the problem
> or confirm this bug/problem and finds the reason.
>
> I post this in the name of other users who want to play the lecture videos
> in high qualtiy with the tscc codec. This will become in future more
> important because of the development of elearning.
>
> Thanx for a helping answer,
> Thomas