[MPlayer-users] How to play MTV files?

[Robert Nichols]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 02:25:51AM +0400, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>> As you can see, "Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video 
>> format 0x10424752" yet again. If I understand your correctly, you 
>> can play that file with mplayer rev >= 26846, so I can't 
>> understand what's wrong with my system. Or, maybe, you have some 
>> special options enabled or some uncommitted changes pending?
> 
> Are you really, really, _really_ sure you have _no_ codecs.conf lying
> around _anywhere_ (no, -noconfig has no effect on that one)?
> The colours are probably wrong with the current code though.

FWIW, I'm seeing the same problem, and there is no codecs.conf file
anywhere on my system.

$ /usr/local/bin/gmplayer /var/tmp/Fun_Final.mtv
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26850-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 9)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing /var/tmp/Fun_Final.mtv.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [RGB]  96x64  16bpp  16.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[VO_XV] Using Xv Adaptor #0 (ATI Radeon Video Overlay)
==========================================================================
Trying to force video codec driver family libmpeg2...
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 96 x 64 (preferred colorspace: RGB 16-bit)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x10424752.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...

Here's the summary from running 'configure'.  Notice anything missing??

Config files successfully generated by ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-gui --disable-lirc 
--enable-runtime-cpudetection !

   Install prefix: /usr/local
   Data directory: /usr/local/share/mplayer
   Config direct.: /usr/local/etc/mplayer

   Byte order: little-endian
   Optimizing for: Runtime CPU-Detection enabled

   Languages:
     Messages/GUI: en
     Manual pages: en

   Enabled optional drivers:
     Input: ftp pvr tv-teletext tv-v4l2 tv-v4l tv libdvdcss(internal) dvdread(internal) vcd dvb smb network
     Codecs: x264 xvid libdv libavcodec qtx real xanim win32 faad2 faac libmpeg2 liba52 mp3lib tremor(internal) twolame gif
     Audio output: alsa oss sdl mpegpes(dvb)
     Video output: sdl gif89a pnm jpeg png mpegpes(dvb) fbdev xvidix cvidix opengl dga xv x11 xover md5sum tga
   Disabled optional drivers:
     Input: dvdnav vstream radio tv-dshow live555 nemesi cddb cdda
     Codecs: libamr_wb libamr_nb musepack libdca libtheora speex toolame libmad liblzo
     Audio output: sun openal jack pulse esd arts v4l2 ivtv dxr2 nas
     Video output: zr zr2 v4l2 ivtv dxr3 dxr2 vesa svga caca aa ggi xmga mga winvidix 3dfx xvmc dfbmga directfb bl 
xvr100 tdfx_vid s3fb tdfxfb

'config.h' and 'config.mak' contain your configuration options.

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