Topic - The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.



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Topic Starter mike004 - Posted on Thursday, January 15 2009 01:16:05 PM
Fedora Core 6. 2.6.18 kernel.

I installed the *essential* codecs package.
I then compiled and installed 1.0rc2.
I then tried to view an mpeg file, but just got a "frozen" frame.
Any ideas? Should I install the *all* codecs package?
Thanks
Mike

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[michael@localhost ~]$ mplayer Desktop/short1.mpg
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Playing Desktop/short1.mpg.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 320x240 (aspect 1) 29.970 fps 550.0 kbps (68.8 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 8000->128000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 32000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
[swscaler @ 0x887cc30]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr565 special converter
A: 0.6 V: 0.8 A-V: -0.131 ct: -0.011 6/ 6 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
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Here are my codecs:
$ mplayer -vo help
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
Available video output drivers:
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
gl X11 (OpenGL)
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
fbdev Framebuffer Device
fbdev2 Framebuffer Device
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
png PNG file
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame

[michael@localhost ~]$ mplayer -ao help
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
Available audio output drivers:
oss OSS/ioctl audio output
alsa ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output
mpegpes DVB audio output
null Null audio output
pcm RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio outp