Problems playing Flash Video .flv files on Edgy Eft

[NoOp]

On 04/19/2007 05:43 AM, Rich Lott wrote:
> 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?

Applications|Sounds & Video|Mplayer
right click on the Mplayer screen then select Preferences
Video codec family: FFmpeg...
Audio code family: FFmpeg...

You can also download & install the codecs directly from:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Scroll down to Binary Codec Packages then select the appropriate one for
your system/language. Download untar then follow the instructions in the
README file.

> 
> 
>> 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.

That works just fine for me. (cool video btw :-)

> 
> *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 get the same errors + I get sound but no video.

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

I tend to avoid adding things to my browsers (with the exception of the
Mozilla Preferences Toolbar), so I used:

http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

The key error that I notice is:

libavformat file format detected.
[flv @ 0x874c3c8]Unsupported video codec (4)

However when I play the Vista vs Linux video I get:

libavformat file format detected.
VIDEO:  [FLV1]  320x240  0bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)


> 
> to download it. From the terminal, I get the attached.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> rich
> 

I'll try from my feisty system later... currently trying to figure out
an OpenOffice/Java/Nautilus problem
(http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6510610) so it may
be awhile before I can try.

The good news: you *can* play an flv on Mplayer
The bad news: you can't play UK comedy (then again, maybe that's not
such bad news after all... :-)