[MPlayer-users] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Decoder init failed :(

[Michael Reed]

Sure enough, I was indeed playing an empty title.  Thanks for cluing me in.

-Mike

On 10/2/06, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
>
> On Monday, 02 October 2006 at 16:29, Michael Reed wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to play a dvd on linux (CentOS 4.1) for the 1st time.  I'm
> > getting a complaint about the video output device not being compatible
> w/
> > the codec.  I've used both the default vo and also xv, but get the error
> > with both.  I found a post that said "notice that it switches to a
> different
> > codec after failing w/ the original one", so perhaps this isn't really
> my
> > problem.  but if I keep reading the error, I don't see any other smoking
> > guns or blatant errors.  Any hints?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > MR
> >
> > [mreed at yugo ~]$ mplayer -v dvd://1 -vo xv
> [...]
> > MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> [...]
> >
> ==========================================================================
> > Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
> > VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
> > 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 :(
>
> This is irrelevant, because the next decoder is initialized succesfully.
>
> > Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder
> libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
> > Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
> >
> ==========================================================================
> [...]
> > MPEG Stream reached EOF%  0.0% 0
> > 0
> > ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> > MPEG Stream reached EOF
> > ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> > MPEG Stream reached EOF
> > ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> > MPEG Stream reached EOF
> > ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> > MPEG Stream reached EOF
> > ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> > MPEG Stream reached EOF
> > ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> > EOF code: 1   30  3%  1%  0.0% 0
> > 0
>
> There's your error. You're playing an empty title.
>
> Regards,
> R.
>
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