Mplayer Audio Help
 

Hey gang.....This is the last script I got when attempting to open a file with mplayer.....The only noticeable problem I'm having is no audio....I've tried the "mplayer -ao oss" command, the "mplayer -ao help" command......Can anybody point me in the direction of fixing my audio....The fonts really aren't a big deal to me, should they be? I'm a newbie if it's not obvious....I'm a Windows baby but am more than willing to diversify and learn Linux as my primary OS...

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[dmiller@jaxlnxbox documents]$ mplayer The_Notebook.mov
MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Tualatin 1202 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/dmiller/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/dmiller/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/dmiller/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
font: can't open file: /home/dmiller/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup
scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/dmiller/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing The_Notebook.mov.
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
Compressed header uses zlib algo!
Compressed header size: 9905 / 19053
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MOV track #0: 552 chunks, 2065 samples
MOV: Found unknown movie atom SMI (18)!
Image size: 320 x 240 (32 bpp)
Display size: 320 x 240
Fourcc: SVQ3 Codec: 'Sorenson Video 3'
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MOV track #1: 276 chunks, 0 samples
Audio bits: 16 chans: 2 rate: 44100
Audio extra header: len=92 fcc=0x77617665
MOV: Found unknown audio atom Fourcc: QDM2
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MOV: longest streams: A: #1 (276 samples) V: #0 (2065 samples)
Clip info:
name: 'The Notebook' - Trailer
author: New Line Cinema
copyright: Copyright ?2004
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [qtaudio] QuickTime Audio Decoder
win32 libquicktime loader (c) Sascha Sommer
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: qtmlClient.dll, /usr/local/lib/codecs/qtmlClient.dll, /usr/lib/win32/qtmlClient.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/qtmlClient.dll
failed loading dll
ADecoder preinit failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x324D4451.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffsvq3] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg Sorenson Video v3 (SVQ3))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Broken pipe76 6% 5% 0.0% 0 0 0%

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have you tried playing some other file.Like a avi or mpg or something.I have experienced this problem for quiet a while now.Some .mov movies do not output an audio stream whereas some do.I do not know the reason why.

rmanocha
 

Yeah, I've had some .WMV files play with no problems...haven't tried .AVI yet...will later tonight....the .MOV files are like you said, some work some don't....I don't understand it....Also my .MOV files are out of synch as far as audio and video go....Like a Godzilla movie....*DOH*

Uhh
 

Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: qtmlClient.dll, /usr/local/lib/codecs/qtmlClient.dll, /usr/lib/win32/qtmlClient.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/qtmlClient.dll
failed loading dll
ADecoder preinit failed
ADecoder init failed
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x324D4451.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

Have you tried reading "DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html"? I think that would probably shed some light on the prob. As you can see above it's having a problem loading a codec lib. The problem may be rectifiable, but you'll never know until you read the documentation :-).

Re: rmanocha
 

Yes ihave noticed this tons of times with .mov files.For school work we have to watch videos and our teacher has put them up in .mov format so i have to go to windows or read the titles to know whats going on.However you will not have any problems with any other type of video encoding.
I would suggest that you download and install the win32 codec set from mplayers site.It gives you many more ocdecs and lets you play quiet a few other video formats.

oh well....
 

I thought i was doing so well when i found qtmlClient.dll off the Internet and copied it:
and then after studying the output messages, i found QuikTime.qts off my WinBlows install and copied it
but then it still complained:
oh well, it was good while it lasted, i guess i should be very happy, at least i can see the video

- perry

MPlayer Audio help
 

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