mplayer not playing .avi

[rathod.nikhil@gmail.com]

I just moved to 7.04 from 6.06.

When I'm trying to play avi in mplayer it is giving error message

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

anybody got any clue, what might me wrong.

I faced the same problem in Ubuntu 7.04 too.

[eriefisher]

Re: mplayer not playing .avi

Have you installed the win32 codecs for 7.04?

eriefisher

[rathod.nikhil@gmail.com]

Re: mplayer not playing .avi

nope

is that must?

I thought m player has all codecs it needs.

I did,
no success

[b0uncyfr0]

Re: mplayer not playing .avi

Try using automatix. I kow its not very secure but its easier and probably has more codecs than installing then manually.

You could also head over to the medibuntu site and add their repo's to your source.list. The have all the latest codecs.

See if any of these help...

[Rog131]

Re: mplayer not playing .avi

What says:

:~$ xvinfo

Is it ?

# xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present

Have you tried ?
Mplayer > Preferences > Video -> Available drivers (xv/x11/gl...)

[rathod.nikhil@gmail.com]

Re: mplayer not playing .avi

this is what xvinfo shows

$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
 Adaptor #0: "XV_SWOV"
  number of ports: 1
  port base: 68
  operations supported: PutImage
  supported visuals:
   depth 24, visualID 0x22
   depth 24, visualID 0x23
   depth 24, visualID 0x24
   depth 24, visualID 0x25
   depth 24, visualID 0x26
   depth 24, visualID 0x27
   depth 24, visualID 0x28
   depth 24, visualID 0x29
   depth 24, visualID 0x2a
   depth 24, visualID 0x2b
   depth 24, visualID 0x2c
   depth 24, visualID 0x2d
  number of attributes: 6
   "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215)
       client settable attribute
       client gettable attribute (current value is 2081)
   "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range 0 to 10000)
       client settable attribute
       client gettable attribute (current value is 5000)
   "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 20000)
       client settable attribute
       client gettable attribute (current value is 10000)
   "XV_SATURATION" (range 0 to 20000)
       client settable attribute
       client gettable attribute (current value is 10000)
   "XV_HUE" (range -180 to 180)
       client settable attribute
       client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
   "XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 1)
       client settable attribute
       client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
  maximum XvImage size: 1920 x 1200
  Number of image formats: 6
   id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
    guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
    bits per pixel: 16
    number of planes: 1
    type: YUV (packed)
   id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
    guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
    bits per pixel: 12
    number of planes: 3
    type: YUV (planar)
   id: 0x434d5658 (XVMC)
    guid: 56494100-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
    bits per pixel: 12
    number of planes: 1
    type: YUV (planar)
   id: 0x35315652 (RV15)
    guid: 52563135-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
    bits per pixel: 16
    number of planes: 1
    type: RGB (packed)
    depth: 15
    red, green, blue masks: 0x7c00, 0x3e0, 0x1f
   id: 0x36315652 (RV16)
    guid: 52563136-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
    bits per pixel: 16
    number of planes: 1
    type: RGB (packed)
    depth: 16
    red, green, blue masks: 0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
   id: 0x32335652 (RV32)
    guid: 52563332-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
    bits per pixel: 32
    number of planes: 1
    type: RGB (packed)
    depth: 24
    red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff

I changed the available driver form
xmga Matrox G200/G4X0/G550 overlay in X11window (using/dev/mga_vid)
to
xv X11/Xv

and it worked, but I'm not sure wether this driver is going to support other video formats that mplayer can support.

So can you guys pls tell me which codec you all are using so that I may avoid any surprises in terms of format support later on.

and thanks for the help