[MPlayer-users] Some vids not playing

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Steven Feil <sfeil <at> inbox.com> writes:

> I am still confused as to how the codec and 
> demuxer relate to the libraries in the 
> /usr/lib directory.

(Mostly unrelated: There is nothing except a few 
very outdated Windows drivers for ancient codecs 
that you can optionally install, today all 
decoders are in a library called libavcodec from 
the FFmpeg project, it is recommended to compile 
the library statically into MPlayer.)

> "http://pastebin.com/Vxeq7s4U" for full output.

Generally, never use pastebin when asking for 
help here (or on the FFmpeg user mailing lists), 
always post the necessary information.
(Also mostly unrelated: I do not easily remember 
a report or a question where mediainfo output 
helped, so just skip it.)

You could now upload the file in question, we 
could test it and find out that it works fine, 
the easier way is (sorry) that you recompile:
The version you have installed is old and uses 
old FFmpeg libraries, this may or may not work 
but the supported (and easy!) solution is to 
compile current svn with "./configure && make" 
which downloads current FFmpeg.
You unfortunately need headers for either xv 
or OpenGL (or VDPAU if you have appropriate 
graphic drivers).

Sorry if you don't find this helpful but I am 
not sure you will find somebody here who will 
debug your variant of the "dll hell".

Carl Eugen