# HG changeset patch # User gpoirier # Date 1111527168 0 # Node ID 84c7d76be5bb7efdb5cdc3ce725089fa60130a14 # Parent aa57bc6ccac78f38e5503baca92ba5d877441326 New FAQ entry: Newer MPlayer can't play Vorbis file with an old codecs.conf lying around because the FourCC for Vobis has been changed recently. diff -r aa57bc6ccac7 -r 84c7d76be5bb DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml Tue Mar 22 16:14:49 2005 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml Tue Mar 22 21:32:48 2005 +0000 @@ -837,6 +837,25 @@ +I got this playing a file containing an Ogg/Vorbis file: +Cannot find codec for audio format 0x73627276. Older MPlayer version are OK. + + +Similar to the problem above, you have an old version of +codecs.conf in +~/.mplayer/, +/etc/, +/etc/mplayer, +/usr/local/etc/ or similar. Remove it, +it's not needed anymore. +Newer Mplayer versions can't work with an old codecs.conf file because the +FourCC for Vobis has been changed recently. If you have an old codecs.conf +lying around somewhere then it doesn't contain this new FourCC. +Therefore no playback. + + + + When starting MPlayer under KDE I just get a black screen and nothing happens. After about one minute the video starts playing.