DeeJayBump Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 (edited) I recently (finally) made the move to 10.1 and I am having the following issue: I can't get any of my installed media players (Kaffeine, Totem, Mplayer, Xine) to play the video portion of WMV9-encoded videos. I've tried installing the w32codecs, and still the issue remains. The audio plays fine, but no video on these particular files. Can anyone help me rectify this situation? Thanks. Edited October 18, 2004 by DeeJayBump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 Did you check if the installation of the codecs went coreect (installtion is just copying the codecs to /usr/lib/win32). If you dont see the codecs in that folder, download them from the mplayer site and copy them to /usr/lib/win32. As a reminder: Mandrake uses urpmi to install software (see the FAQs). Always make sure you have set up your media (PLF!!) correctly before you install software) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJayBump Posted October 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 (edited) Did you check if the installation of the codecs went coreect (installtion is just copying the codecs to /usr/lib/win32). If you dont see the codecs in that folder, download them from the mplayer site and copy them to /usr/lib/win32. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1. Yes, the codecs are in /usr/lib/win32 Thanks. Edited October 12, 2004 by DeeJayBump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJayBump Posted October 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 Let me clarify: The codecs are in /usr/lib/win32 and were placed there when I installed the codecs package. I verified this, and still the problem remains. I still cannot view movies/clips encoded as/in Windows Media Video 9. Any further help will be greatly appreciate. Sorry for not making this clear in the second reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 can you have a look at the output mplayer gives when you try to play such a file and post anything that looks relevant here? mplayer's output is very helpful in looking at this kind of problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJayBump Posted October 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 Sure. Mplayer gives the following error when attempting to play these files: Fatal error! Error opening/initializing the selected video-out (-vo) device Totem does nothing, it just says "No File" and does nothing else until I close it. Kaffeine shows a black screen, the audio plays, and the length (time) of the clip(s) moves along on the slider, but no video. On the bottome of the video portion of Kaffeine, it shows the file name and: **(file) Windows Media Video 9 (0x0) MS Windows Media Audio 2 (ffmpeg) (34kb) Xine gives this: The stream use and unsupported codec: Video Codec: Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) Start playback anyway? If I click Yes to star playback anyway, I hear the audio and the slider moves along, but no video is displayed. Does this help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 13, 2004 Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 Yes it helps . (well at least the mplayer part :) ) Error opening/initializing the selected video-out (-vo) device Try changing the video out: mplayer -vo x11 or xv <file name> (mplayer -vo help gives you a list of options) Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJayBump Posted October 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 Try changing the video out: mplayer -vo x11 or xv <file name> (mplayer -vo help gives you a list of options) Okay. I tried the x11 xv xover gl gl2 dxr3 vesa and xvidix video outputs and none worked. A few will still play the sound but that's it--no video. What else can I try? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 13, 2004 Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 Are they perhaps drm protected files (streams stored on your HD). Mplayer, nor any other linux videoplayer, doesn't play these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJayBump Posted October 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 I've also tried all of the codec families in Mplayer's Preferences-Codecs/Demuxer tab and again some of them will play the audio, but none of them will play the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJayBump Posted October 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 (edited) Are they perhaps drm protected files (streams stored on your HD). Mplayer, nor any other linux videoplayer, doesn't play these. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How do I tell if they are drm protected files? These are .wmv files that were downloaded from the net. From my understanding, these .wmv clips were converted from higher quality (DVD/HiDef) files to achieve reduction in file size and specifically for sharing of these files, so my guess would be that they are NOT drm protected files. Thanks. Edited October 13, 2004 by DeeJayBump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJayBump Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 The problem has been solved. I un-installed the w32codecs that I had, and installed the w32codecs package from PLF, and now these files are viewable with Mplayer. Thanks for the tips and help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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