[MPlayer-users] Unable to play 'lagarith' files

[Mark Blain]

andrew <andrew.david.45 at gmail.com> wrote in
news:20091008212600.GA28730 at skamandros.andrews-corner.org: 

> Is it possible to play files encoded with lagarith video codec under
> the svn MPlayer? I have been trying to open this file:
> 
> http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/lagarith/lagarith.avi
> 
> with no success despite MPlayer claiming to be able to play them:
> 
> andrew at skamandros~$ mplayer -vc help | grep lagarith
> lagarith    vfw       working   Lagarith Lossless Video Codec
> [lagarith.dll] 
> 
> This codec is not part of the standard MPlayer codec pack and attempts
> to use the codec manually from:
> 
> http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html
> 
> were a total failure. So can anybody else play these files, and let me
> know how they did it?

I tested successfully on a 32-bit Windows box with the manual-install 
Lagarith 32-bit DLL in my mplayer codecs folder.

Are you using an MMX2 CPU as listed on the codec status table?
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html

Please post the messages you receive when trying to play the file.