Theora support? (Sound but no visuals)

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Lobster · #1 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 09:41

I get sound but no visuals . . .
http://www.betterdesktop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Data

Do we have theora support? Maybe in Grafpup?
http://www.theora.org/

sheepdog · #2 Post by **sheepdog** » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 20:43

Could we have theora support please for mplayer, cannot seem to find the codec directory used, which is available on my other nonpuppy mplayer
Thanks

tempestuous · #3 Post by **tempestuous** » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 23:41

In MPlayer, Theora support must be enabled when first compiled. It then links to the libtheora library, not the external codec directory.
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/MP ... 8-xvmc.pup
has this theora support ... + WMV9 + RealVideo10 + H.264.

sheepdog · #4 Post by **sheepdog** » Wed 27 Sep 2006, 08:22

Thanks for the reply, I had the previous version., uninstalled that and installed 1.0p8 which when ran it stopped, complaining about missing libasound. Searched the forum and installed libasound.pup dont know if headers are required tho?. On restart mplayer crashes. Please see snapshot.
I do not know if this is still libasound related, it also seems unable to play .avi`s etc.
any help gratefully received.
libtheora.so.0 is in my usr/lib

sheepdog · #5 Post by **sheepdog** » Wed 27 Sep 2006, 08:44

Some more info
Error on avi play

tempestuous · #6 Post by **tempestuous** » Wed 27 Sep 2006, 13:33

Several problems:
libasound is the core ALSA library. It looks like you have a very old version of Puppy without ALSA (pre 1.0.

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The easy fix is to change GMPlayer's preferences to use OSS audio output instead of ALSA. The better fix is to upgrade.

Now I worry that you might be using Xvesa instead of Xorg. If you want good multimedia performance, use Xorg. Better still, add accelerated 3D drivers.

Now to your video file. It looks like the video codec contained in your .ogm file is Xvid, not Theora. I just checked on the web, apparently that's common - ogg container files (.ogm) with Xvid video codec + vorbis audio codec.
I know that my MPlayer version will play the XviD codec ... but I have only tried this codec contained within .avi's, not .ogm's.
I might need to experiment ... do you have a link to your .ogm file, or a similar one? Not too big please, I'm on dialup at the moment.

sheepdog · #7 Post by **sheepdog** » Wed 27 Sep 2006, 16:14

http://www.v2v.cc/~j/theora_testsuite/ are some of the files I have tried, but failed.
I downloaded the alsa pup package and playing the movie seemed to fail on the theora decoding part after that, and also on my own ffmpeg2theora preview encodes
It doesnt seem to let me attach the futurama snippet 2 megs must be too much.
Hopefully the test site above might be of help
Thanks for the advice
The second snapshot came from playing an xvid encode to test the sound problem out before I had installed the alsa pup.

tempestuous · #8 Post by **tempestuous** » Thu 28 Sep 2006, 06:01

I downloaded 2 ogg files from the links provided by Lobster and sheepdog.
Using the current version of MPlayer-1.0p8-xvmc.pup (added September 6 2006) both files worked fine.

sheepdog, you need to upgrade.
alsa.pup was only used back in the days when ALSA was being tested in Puppy.
From Puppy 1.0.8 onwards ALSA is included, and its configuration is automated at boot up.

sheepdog · #9 Post by **sheepdog** » Thu 28 Sep 2006, 14:10

Version I use/d Pupwin98 was purely for use from hd, no cdrom drive on this pc. I have mackled grub to boot the latest version of puppy from extracted files from the iso and installed mplayer. I get a pop up of an error on play but it carries on playing so i am quite content with that plus alsa too

I thank you for your time and patience, much appreciated

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Theora support? (Sound but no visuals)

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