Video files debugging....

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 13:50 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Hello Ziyad,
> 
> 
> Thanks for the 'dd' command trick, worked perfectly, and I can believe
> it, but the video files still play despite 98% of the file has been cut
> off ! Wow, I though the header would indicate the some info to verify
> the integrity of the file (number of frames, file size, CRC checksum,
> length, whatever...) but no, apparently as long as the begining of the
> file is there...it's happy :-)
> 
> Anywway, I attached 8 files, the video part always plays fine. There are
> 4 MOV videos, these have no sound at all, and often make Totem
> crash/quit. Then there are 4 WMV files, the problem with these files is
> again the audio part. They are mostly mute, but every other second, you
> get a very sudden, high-pitched (you have been warned ;o) "glitch".,
> like :  ................ "COUIIIC"..................."COUIIIIC".......
> 
> You will see what I mean. However, because the "glitch" appear at
> random, some of these videos are completely mute, but that's jsut
> because teh dd command cut the file too soon, but if you had the entire
> file, trust me you would get these glitches on all these WMV files.
> 
> BTW I am using Warty and Totem-xine with w32codec, as it works better
> than Totem-Gstreamer (as of now, anything works better than
> Gstreamer ! ;o)
> 
> Haven't tried mplayer (why would it be different, if it uses the same
> w32codec ?), as it's not a Gnome program, and is such a pain to install.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help, much appreciated ! :o)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Vince

Hi Vince, List...
This is a fast replay as I'm very sleepy (it's 2AM right now).

I managed to find a solution for all the *.wmv files with Totem (using
Xine back-end) and here it's:
-Make sure that you quit totem.
-Make a backup of ~/.xine/catalog.cache after that edit it and find the
following lines:

[/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_decode_w32dll.so]
size=173768
mtime=1112804124
type=131
api=15
id=win32a
version=10000
supported_types=50593792 52428800 52822016 ... (long line truncated)
decoder_priority=1

-Change
        decoder_priority=1
To
        decoder_priority=7

Save the file and try Totem.
(The above fix will work with *.wmv and *.asf files only, *.mov is still
not playing correctly with Totem.)
(I'll try to explain later in another mail what this is about.)

Ziyad.