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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:51:21PM +0100, Nicolas Jauffret wrote:
> 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

Since dnxhd is not MJPEG it's hardly surprising that it doesn't work...
Provide a sample file and I'll add the proper stuff to codecs.conf.