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[B.K. Johnson]

Neither the out of the box GNOME mplayer 0.9.6 or Vlc 1.0.6 play any of my video (avi) files. I get a blue screen in the video panel with the audio playing.

I downloaded (not via PPM or QuickPet) GNOME mplayer 0.9.9.2 Pet which the PPM says is the latest version available at the lucid repo. I don't see any provision for uninstalling the old version. I take a chance and install the new; no ill effects. But I still have the same problem even when I switch to IceWin which PPM says I should use with mplayer 0.9.9.2.

B. K. Johnson
[Edit]
I grab Smplayer-0.6.8-Lucid.pet from the repo. Same problem. Seems the codec for playing an avi is missing. A link please.

[steve_s]

[James C]

Frugal install Lucid Puppy 510.
I just played this avi video, live fullscreen in Firefox 3.6.8
http://www.linux-video.net/Samples/AVI/Gumby/Gumby_Eve_Magazine.avi

I then downloaded and saved and played it fullscreen in VLC and Gnome MPlayer.No problems.

[steve_s]

[Newcrest]

If it's the same blue screen video issue that I was having with Puppy 5 series then it was not a matter of missing codec. The issue was resolved by simply configuring Xorg with 24 bit colour rather than 16 bit colour.

[B.K. Johnson]

Your command gave me both audio and video, but there is an error in the screen output. Attached is a screen-shot of the output.

Clicking on the avi still does not work. Here is the output from the CLI commands:

vlc Wall-E.avi >mplayer-output.txt
mplayer Wall-E.avi >mplayer-output.txt
mplayer spartacus.avi >mplayer-output.txt

CL command: vlc Wall-E.avi >vlc-output.txt
Text file output: null file.
Screen output:
VLC media player 1.0.6 Goldeneye
[0x80667d0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0x82bd000] freetype spu text error: failed to load font file /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1

with same avi file and CLI: cvlc Wall-E.avi >cvlc-output.txt
Text file output: null file.
Screen output:
VLC media player 1.0.6 Goldeneye
[0x810e058] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
[0x81a8480] freetype spu text error: failed to load font file /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf

******************************************************************
With the same avi but this time using mplayer
Text file output:
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing Wall-E.avi.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Detected NON-INTERLEAVED AVI file format.
VIDEO: [XVID] 560x240 12bpp 23.976 fps 854.3 kbps (104.3 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: Nandub v1.0rc2
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 112.0 kbit/7.29% (ratio: 14000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 560 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 2.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 560x240 => 560x240 Planar YV12
A: 0.2 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.198 ct: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
A: 0.3 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.212 ct: 0.003 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 
A: 0.3 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.174 ct: 0.005 3/ 3 ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0 
<<several lines until I stopped the audio omitted; last lines are>>
A: 25.5 V: 25.5 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.028 612/612 6% 4% 1.1% 2 0 
A: 25.5 V: 25.5 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.028 613/613 6% 4% 1.1% 2 0 
Exiting... (Quit)
***************************************************
Another avi, this one one level deeper - spartacus.avi
Text file has:
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing spartacus.avi.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [XVID] 576x320 24bpp 23.976 fps 989.8 kbps (120.8 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: transcode-0.6.14
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/2.08% (ratio: 4000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 576 x 320 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.80:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 576x320 => 576x320 Planar YV12
A: 0.2 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.162 ct: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
A: 0.2 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.124 ct: 0.002 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
A: 0.2 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.082 ct: 0.005 3/ 3 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
<<snip>>
A: 9.4 V: 9.4 A-V: 0.008 ct: 0.093 227/227 8% 5% 1.2% 0 0 
A: 9.5 V: 9.5 A-V: 0.006 ct: 0.094 228/228 8% 5% 1.2% 0 0 
Exiting... (Quit)


B.K. Johnson[/i]

[Béèm]

Based on the output screen I wonder if you have the DejaVu ttf font