[MPlayer-users] No video output with a dnxhd encoded video (AVdn)

[Nicolas Jauffret]

Hello,

I have  no video output playing a AVID "dnxhd" encoded video.

Here is the output of a svn freshly compiled mplayer :

*** without modifying ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf :

$ mplayer myvideo.mov
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26228-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
117 audio & 241 video codecs

Playing myvideo.mov.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
VIDEO:  [AVdn]  1920x1080  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x6E645641.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================

*** modifying ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf : adding "fourcc AVdn" into the 
"videocodec ffmjpeg" section

$ mplayer myvideo.mov
[...]
[mjpeg @ 0x874c9b0]picture size invalid (25072x61269)
Error while decoding frame!
[mjpeg @ 0x874c9b0]dqt: 16bit precision
[mjpeg @ 0x874c9b0]mjpeg: unsupported coding type (cd)
[mjpeg @ 0x874c9b0]picture size invalid (14430x59379)
Error while decoding frame!
[mjpeg @ 0x874c9b0]mjpeg: unsupported coding type (cb)
[mjpeg @ 0x874c9b0]mjpeg: unsupported coding type (cd)
[mjpeg @ 0x874c9b0]mjpeg: unsupported coding type (cd)
[mjpeg @ 0x874c9b0]mjpeg: unsupported coding type (ce)
[mjpeg @ 0x874c9b0]picture size invalid (63324x60342)
Error while decoding frame!

FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).


Exiting... (End of file)


For information, ffmpeg is able to convert the video to another formats.

$ ffmpeg -i myvideo.mov
FFmpeg version SVN-r12192, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-static 
--enable-gpl --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame 
--enable-libxvid --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libx264 --enable-liba52 
--enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --extra-ldflags=-static
  libavutil version: 49.6.0
  libavcodec version: 51.50.1
  libavformat version: 52.7.0
  libavdevice version: 52.0.0
  built on Feb 26 2008 17:57:43, gcc: 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'myvideo.mov':
  Duration: 00:00:58.8, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 39105 kb/s
    Stream #0.0(eng): Video: dnxhd, yuv422p, 1920x1080 [PAR 0:1 DAR 
0:1], 25.00 tb(r)
Must supply at least one output file


Thank you for your help.

Nick