Who else using PClinux ?
 

Who else is using PClinux ?
If you are have you got VLC loaded, and how did you get it going
for video files downloaded off the Net ?
The damn thing will play commercial videos but will not play
any downloaded video.
Have reinstalled it about four time using both Apt and Smart.
It is starting to give me wrinkles :-)
I can play video files off the net with both Kaffeine and SMplayer.
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grumpy

Re: Who else using PClinux ?
 

In message <gd8t49$9rl$1@aioe.org>, grumpyoldhori wrote:

> The damn thing will play commercial videos but will not play
> any downloaded video.

Do you get any error message? Any indication of what the difference might
be, in codecs or file formats, between the files that play and the ones
that don't?

> Have reinstalled it about four time using both Apt and Smart.

Package installs don't tend to go wrong in Linux. If it didn't work the
first time, a reinstall is unlikely to help.

> I can play video files off the net with both Kaffeine and SMplayer.

SMPlayer is a GUI front-end to MPlayer, and therefore uses MPlayer's codecs.
I'm pretty sure Kaffeine is a GUI front-end of some kind too.

Re: Who else using PClinux ?
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> Do you get any error message? Any indication of what the difference might
> be, in codecs or file formats, between the files that play and the ones
> that don't?

On a lot of the video files that I have downloaded it states that
the video file is broken.
But they will play in both Kaffeine and Smplayer.
Or I do get audio only on downloaded video files


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grumpy

Re: Who else using PClinux ?
 

In message <gd9aag$n1f$1@aioe.org>, grumpyoldhori wrote:

> On a lot of the video files that I have downloaded it states that
> the video file is broken.
> But they will play in both Kaffeine and Smplayer.
> Or I do get audio only on downloaded video files

It could very well be that the file is broken. Some players are more
tolerant of that than others.

Are these files available for download anywhere? I could take a look and see
what my favourite media-munging tool--FFmpeg--says.

Re: Who else using PClinux ?
 

Hi there,

grumpyoldhori wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Do you get any error message? Any indication of what the difference might
>> be, in codecs or file formats, between the files that play and the ones
>> that don't?
>
> On a lot of the video files that I have downloaded it states that
> the video file is broken.
> But they will play in both Kaffeine and Smplayer.
> Or I do get audio only on downloaded video files

It sounds like vlc is not finding/using the w32-codecs. Those
codecs are required for the likes of mplayer and xine to decode
certain proprietary video formats.

Have a trawl thru the setup for vlc, and if there is an option to
locate the codecs folder it may just be that vlc is looking in the
wrong place...

Kind regards,

Chris Wilkinson, Edinburgh.

Re: Who else using PClinux ?
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> Are these files available for download anywhere? I could take a look and
> see what my favourite media-munging tool--FFmpeg--says.

They are the Xvid files that will not play in VLC, starting to get
error messages saying that the Xvid format is not recognised.
Which is head scratching because they play well in Xine and Mplayer
I grabbed a VLC -vvv copy off the terminal.
Wish I was a command line wizz :-)

muzz@localhost ~]$ vlc -vvv
VLC media player 0.8.6e Janus
[00000001] main private debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main private debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main private debug: loading plugins cache
file /home/muzz/.vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `modules'
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `plugins'
[00000001] main private debug: module bank initialized, found 228 modules
[00000001] main private debug: opening config file /home/muzz/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main private debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX 3DNow!
MMXEXT SSE FPU
[00000001] main private debug: looking for memcpy module: 4 candidates
[00000001] main private debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmxext"
[00000291] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000291] main playlist debug: thread 3078912928 (playlist) created at
priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:184)
[00000292] main private debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000292] main private debug: thread 3070520224 (preparser) created at
priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:210)
[00000293] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000293] main interface debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
[00000293] main interface debug: thread 3062127520 (interface) created at
priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000295] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000295] main interface debug: using interface module "screensaver"
[00000295] main interface debug: thread 3053734816 (interface) created at
priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000297] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 4 candidates
[00000297] main interface debug: using interface module "wxwidgets"
[00000297] main interface debug: thread 3024161696 (manager) created at
priority 0 (interface/interface.c:216)
/home/muzz/.gtkrc-2.0:56: Clearlooks configuration option "menuitemstyle" is
not supported and will be ignored.
/home/muzz/.gtkrc-2.0:57: Clearlooks configuration
option "listviewitemstyle" is not supported and will be ignored.
/home/muzz/.gtkrc-2.0:58: Clearlooks configuration option "progressbarstyle"
is not supported and will be ignored.
/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:42: Invalid symbolic
color 'fg_color'
/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:42: error: invalid identifier
`fg_color', expected valid identifier
[00000297] wxwidgets interface debug: Using last windows
config '(-1,0,0,1024,768)(0,0,0,485,120)(6,0,0,-1,150)'
[00000297] wxwidgets interface debug: id=0 p=(0,0) s=(485,120)
[00000297] wxwidgets interface debug: id=6 p=(0,0) s=(-1,150)
[00000001] main private debug: removing all interfaces
[00000297] main interface debug: thread 3024161696 joined
(interface/interface.c:258)
[00000297] main interface debug: removing module "wxwidgets"
[00000295] main interface debug: thread 3053734816 joined
(interface/interface.c:258)
[00000295] main interface debug: removing module "screensaver"
[00000293] main interface debug: thread 3062127520 joined
(interface/interface.c:258)
[00000293] main interface debug: removing module "hotkeys"
[00000001] main private debug: removing playlist handler
[00000292] main private debug: thread 3070520224 joined
(playlist/playlist.c:247)
[00000291] main playlist debug: thread 3078912928 joined
(playlist/playlist.c:248)
[00000001] main private debug: removing all video outputs
[00000001] main private debug: removing all audio outputs
[00000001] main private debug: removing module "memcpymmxext"
[00000001] main private debug: opening config file /home/muzz/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main private debug: saving plugins cache
file /home/muzz/.vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat
[muzz@localhost ~]$

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grumpy

Re: Who else using PClinux ?
 

In message <gdbjgq$5h9$1@aioe.org>, grumpyoldhori wrote:

> Wish I was a command line wizz :-)

That's OK, it takes a few years of practice :).

A thought: are you installing the prebuilt VLC package that came with
PCLinuxOS? That could have dropped a few codecs because of patent
restrictions. (Though presumably if you installed Xine and MPlayer the same
way, they should have the same restrictions as well.) Have you tried
downloading and building VLC from source? Shouldn't really be that hard to
do.

Re: Who else using PClinux ?
 

In message <gdbjgq$5h9$1@aioe.org>, grumpyoldhori wrote:

> muzz@localhost ~]$ vlc -vvv

Just a thought, "vlc -l" is supposed to list available modules. Try this

vlc -l | grep video

to narrow the listing down to video-related modules. On my system, it
doesn't list any specific entries for XviD or DivX, but it does
include "avcodec" for "FFmpeg audio/video decoder", which means it's using
all the codecs available in my FFmpeg installation.

Re: Who else using PClinux ?
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> vlc -l | grep video
>

Got this result Lawrence.
muzz@localhost ~]$ vlc -l | grep video
VLC media player 0.8.6e Janus
theora Theora video decoder
theora Theora video packetizer
theora Theora video encoder
dummy Dummy video output function
cinepak Cinepak video decoder
fake Fake video decoder
sdl_image SDL_image video decoder
libmpeg2 MPEG I/II video decoder (using libmpeg2)
rawvideo Pseudo raw video decoder
rawvideo Pseudo raw video packetizer
png PNG video decoder
mpgv MPEG-I/II video demuxer
h264 H264 video demuxer
m4v MPEG-4 video demuxer
ty TY Stream audio/video demux
logo Logo video filter
clone Clone video filter
crop Crop video filter
motiondetect Motion detect video filter
deinterlace Deinterlacing video filter
deinterlace Deinterlacing video filter
distort Distort video filter
invert Invert video filter
mosaic Mosaic video sub filter
wall Wall video filter
magnify Magnify/Zoom interactive video filter
vout_sdl Simple DirectMedia Layer video output
x11 X11 video output
xvideo XVideo extension video output
ggi General Graphics Interface video output
aa ASCII-art video output
opengl OpenGL video output
fb GNU/Linux console framebuffer video output
image Image video output
packetizer_mpeg4video MPEG4 video packetizer
packetizer_h264 H.264 video packetizer
packetizer_mpegvideo MPEG-I/II video packetizer
[muzz@localhost ~]$









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grumpy

Re: Who else using PClinux ?
 

In message <gdej34$e5f$3@aioe.org>, grumpyoldhori wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> vlc -l | grep video
> Got this result Lawrence.
> muzz@localhost ~]$ vlc -l | grep video
> [...]

Yeah, nothing there that I can see to do with divx or xvid.