Hi,
I just compiled Mplayer from source. Went fine. Still getting the same error when trying to view an MKV file with WVC1 video encoding. I installed both the w2codecs and w64codecs. No difference.

Here's the mplayer error. See the mediainfo on the file below. How can I get mplayer to understand this file? The audio complains but works.

Xine dies immediately and vlc plays at 2 frames per second.

brianp@trex:~/Videos/cuttlefish$ /usr/local/bin/gmplayer title02.mkv
MPlayer 1.0rc3-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
[GUI] Adding video filter: pp

Playing /home/brianp/Videos/cuttlefish/title02.mkv.
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MS/VFW/FOURCC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_DTS) "3/2+1", -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Track ID 3: audio (A_AC3) "3/2+1", -aid 1, -alang eng
[mkv] Track ID 4: audio (A_AC3) "2/0", -aid 2, -alang fra
[mkv] Subtitle type 'S_HDMV/PGS' is not supported.
[mkv] Track ID 5: subtitles (S_HDMV/PGS), -sid 0, -slang eng
[mkv] Subtitle type 'S_HDMV/PGS' is not supported.
<snip>
[mkv] Track ID 25: subtitles (S_HDMV/PGS), -sid 10, -slang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [WVC1] 1920x1080 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [dts] (afm=libdca) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffdca] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg DTS)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 16.7 (16.6) of 9368.2 ( 2:36:08.1) 2.1% 43%

Thank you,

BrianP


brianp@trex:/usr/lib/codecs$ dpkg -l | grep codecs
ii non-free-codecs 4medibuntu1 Non-free codecs
ii w32codecs 20071007-0medibuntu5 Win32 codec binaries
ii w64codecs 20071007-0medibuntu2 Proprietary codec binaries, x86_64 version


MediaInfo dump:
General
Complete name : /vb/brianp/Videos/cuttlefish/title02.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 24.8 GiB
Duration : 2h 36mn
Overall bit rate : 22.7 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-06-13 20:55:43
Writing application : MakeMKV v1.5.6 beta linux(x64-release)
Writing library : libmakemkv v1.5.6 beta (0.7.7/0.8.1) x86_64-linux-gnu

Video
ID : 1
Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L3
Codec ID : WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 2h 35mn
Bit rate : 19.9 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.400
Stream size : 21.7 GiB (87%)

do you have gstreamer, good, bad, and ugly installed

look in the, add remove program it should tell you

hope this helps

mplayer does not use gstreamer, it uses ffmpeg. Try checking for a mplayer PPA or look in mediabuntu repo.

1.0~rc3+svn20100603-0.0 plays mkv just fine here running Debian sid with mplayer and ffmpeg from the debian-multimedia.org repo.