Problems playing Flash Video .flv files on Edgy Eft

[Rich Lott]

Hi Gary, thanks for coming in on this to help me, much appreciated!

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 18:19:48 NoOp wrote:
> only thing that I needed to do was to set my preferences to use the
> ffmpmeg codecs for both video and audio. 

Could you explain how to do this?


> In order to determine that you 
> don't have a damaged file let's start with a common one; can you

using something a bit more cheerful,
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ

I downloaded the .flv and *blush* it plays ok with mplayer.

*However* I maintain that I'm not entirely stupid, because the file I want to 
play *has played ok* on a debian box, but not on my kubuntu one. And as this 
was the second .flv I had tried to play without success, I do think there's 
something up.

The one that won't play is a UK comedy series catch-up, downloaded from
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2016303818
(sorry, it's quite a large file)

I used the all-in-one bookmarklet from 
http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html

to download it. From the terminal, I get the attached.

Thank you!

rich
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Script started on Thu 19 Apr 2007 13:38:26 BST
rich at reech:~/Desktop$ mplayer a.flv 
MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:    Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing a.flv.
libavformat file format detected.
[flv @ 0x874c3c8]Unsupported video codec (4)
-------------------------------- message repeats 2033 times --------------------------------
[flv @ 0x874c3c8]Unsupported video codec (4)
VIDEO:  []  0x0  0bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [mp3] (afm=mp3lib) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->44100)
Selected audio codec: [ffmp3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-3 audio decoder)
==========================================================================
open: No such file or directory
Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
alsa-init: using device default
alsa: 48000 Hz/1 channels/2 bpf/32768 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[mpeg4 @ 0x87dc78c]header damaged
Error while decoding frame!
A:   inf V:   0.0 A-V:    inf ct:  0.000   1/  1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [JMarker bit missing before time_increment
[mpeg4 @ 0x87dc78c]hmm, seems the headers are not complete, trying to guess time_increment_bits
[mpeg4 @ 0x87dc78c]my guess is 1 bits ;)
A:   inf V:   0.4 A-V:    inf ct:  0.004   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [J[mpeg4 @ 0x87dc78c]header damaged
Error while decoding frame!
A:   0.1 V:   0.4 A-V: -0.292 ct:  0.000   3/  3 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [J[mpeg4 @ 0x87dc78c]header damaged
Error while decoding frame!
A:   0.2 V:   0.4 A-V: -0.267 ct: -0.004   4/  4 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [J[mpeg4 @ 0x87dc78c]header damaged
Error while decoding frame!
A:   0.2 V:   0.5 A-V: -0.307 ct: -0.008   5/  5 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [J[mpeg4 @ 0x87dc78c]header damaged
Error while decoding frame!
A:   0.2 V:   0.5 A-V: -0.283 ct: -0.012   6/  6 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [J[mpeg4 @ 0x87dc78c]header damaged
Error while decoding frame!
-------------------------------- etc etc. until I press Ctrl+C ------------------------------

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_timer
alsa-uninit: pcm closed

Script done on Thu 19 Apr 2007 13:39:04 BST