Kenny Gow wrote:
> C.Beamer wrote:
>
>> Kenny Gow wrote:
>> I had no success installing the codecs packages from livna when I
>> tried. However, I *did* get the w32codec package from atrpms and that
>> didn't help any. I tried downloading the package from the xine site.
>> This was older than the atrpms package that I got, but I removed the
>> newer package and installed the older package, just in case it would
>> work. No luck.
>>
>> So I'm still at square 1 1/2. But thanks for trying! :-)
>>
>>
> I'm not giving up that easily. What I did to figure out what codec
> the CNN videos wanted was copy down that URL you see when you get the
> audio but no video, and run it from a command line like this,
>
> mplayer
> mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/nitn/2005/07/08/nitn.edition.12.cnn.ws.wmv
>
>
> If you run that command (it's one line) in a terminal, it will show
> you what codec it's trying to use and whether it finds it. Could you
> try running that and posting the output?
>
> Also, what's in your /usr/lib/win32 directory? From all you've
> described with the codecs, it ought to have the right codecs.
Okay, here we go:
#1
I ran your command from above with the appropriate substitution for the
url. I did this as 'root' and the output is as displayed below. I also
ran it as user "colleen", but the output was a bunch of garbage - it
said that mplayer couldn't be found and mplayer (the executable is
definitely in my path. Anyway, the output as 'root':
mplayer
mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/world/2005/07/09/obrien.italy.show.of.support.reut.ws.wmv
MPlayer 1.0pre7-4.0.0 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Creating config file: /root/.mplayer/config
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing
mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/world/2005/07/09/obrien.italy.show.of.support.reut.ws.wmv.
Resolving wmscnn.stream.aol.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: wmscnn.stream.aol.com
Resolving wmscnn.stream.aol.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wmscnn.stream.aol.com[64.236.99.4]:1755 ...
connected
unknown object
file object, packet length = 5000 (5000)
unknown object
unknown object
unknown object
stream object, stream id: 1
stream object, stream id: 2
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 5000
Cache size set to 8192 KBytes
Connected to server: wmscnn.stream.aol.com
Cache fill: 19.92% (1671168 bytes) ASF file format detected.
VIDEO: [WMV3] 464x260 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
name: obrien.italy.show.of.support.reut
author: CNN
copyright: Copyright (c) 2005 Cable News Network LP, LLLP
comments:
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 4003->88200)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
display)
Xv: could not grab port 69
Could not find free Xvideo port - maybe another process is already using it.
Close all video applications, and try again. If that does not help,
see 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmv9dmod.dll,
/usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x84ec5c9 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmv9dmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll,
/usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x84ec5c9 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmvdmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
VDecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/1ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le...
AF_pre: 44100Hz/1ch/s16le
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or
resource busy
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 44100 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/60208 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little
Endian
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/1ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le...
Video: no video
Starting playback...
everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
proprietary and patentend technology.
A: 95.0 (01:34.9) 0.6% 0%
alsa-uninit: pcm closed
Exiting... (End of file)
#2 A bit of further information. Like I said, if I open a wmv file
from within media player, it works. However, the only way it works is
with the following settings:
audio: aRts
video: X11, gl, gl2
Any of the above settings for video work, if I use any other setting for
video from within Mplayer, I get sound, but no video.
However, even when I do get video to display (i.e. my video setting is
gl2, for example, the video plays in Mplayer, but this message displays:
"ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec "
In response to your final question, /usr/lib/win32 contains the sym link
as follows:
codecs -> /usr/local/lib/codecs
And there *is* a 'wmvdmod.dll' and a 'wmv9dmod.dll' file in
/usr/local/lib/codecs.
Regards,
Colleen
