# 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.