Playing .avi video files

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B.K. Johnson
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Playing .avi video files

#1 Post by 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.

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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.

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#2 Post by steve_s »

B.K. Johnson wrote: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.
Have you tried other avi's? It depends on which vlc, etc you are using, but I've almost never had issues with avi files.

Try from command, assuming your avi file is named 'myavifile.avi':

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vlc --vout x11 /where/your/fileis/myavifile.avi
...and post what output you get. That will give us more info.

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#3 Post by 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/ ... gazine.avi

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

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#4 Post by steve_s »

James C wrote: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/ ... gazine.avi

I then downloaded and saved and played it fullscreen in VLC and Gnome MPlayer.No problems.
yep, that's why he may have some x11 issues or something...I do full screen with vlc and gmplayer all the time.

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#5 Post by 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.

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Playing .avi video files

#6 Post by 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 [J
A: 0.3 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.212 ct: 0.003 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 [J
A: 0.3 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.174 ct: 0.005 3/ 3 ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0 [J
<<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 [J
A: 25.5 V: 25.5 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.028 613/613 6% 4% 1.1% 2 0 [J
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 [J
A: 0.2 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.124 ct: 0.002 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [J
A: 0.2 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.082 ct: 0.005 3/ 3 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [J
<<snip>>
A: 9.4 V: 9.4 A-V: 0.008 ct: 0.093 227/227 8% 5% 1.2% 0 0 [J
A: 9.5 V: 9.5 A-V: 0.006 ct: 0.094 228/228 8% 5% 1.2% 0 0 [J
Exiting... (Quit)


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#7 Post by Béèm »

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