Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 14988:84c7d76be5bb
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.
| author | gpoirier |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:32:48 +0000 |
| parents | aa57bc6ccac7 |
| children | d55bd88c2b42 |
| files | DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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 @@ </qandaentry> <qandaentry> +<question><para>I got this playing a file containing an Ogg/Vorbis file: +Cannot find codec for audio format 0x73627276. Older MPlayer version are OK. +</para></question> +<answer><para> +Similar to the problem above, you have an old version of +<filename>codecs.conf</filename> in +<filename class="directory">~/.mplayer/</filename>, +<filename class="directory">/etc/</filename>, +<filename class="directory">/etc/mplayer</filename>, +<filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/</filename> 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. +</para></answer> +</qandaentry> + +<qandaentry> <question><para> When starting <application>MPlayer</application> under KDE I just get a black screen and nothing happens. After about one minute the video starts playing.