Black screen when previewing avi files
Hi, I was trying to preview some avi files from the web page of our lab: htttp:rfierro.okstate.edu/marhes/multimedia.htm and I can only see a black image and hear the sound of what is happening, meanwhile when I connected from a windows terminal I was able to see the image. Does someone has an idea what is happening? Thanks Jose
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 01:39:04 -0700
Jose Sanchez
Hi,
I was trying to preview some avi files from the web page of our lab:
htttp:rfierro.okstate.edu/marhes/multimedia.htm
and I can only see a black image and hear the sound of what is happening, meanwhile when I connected from a windows terminal I was able to see the image.
Does someone has an idea what is happening?
There is alot of different codecs for avi. You probably don't have the right decoding codec for that avi on the linux box. See if you can save the file to disk, and view it with xanim or mplayer, if not try to find out which codec it is, and see if you can get the linux port of it. Windows is always using more and more "exotic" codecs to make avi's, and if you want to make the avi's cross-platform, you should choose an "earlier codec" that is now distributed to everyone. Or convert them to mpeg-video. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
zentara wrote:
There is alot of different codecs for avi. You probably don't have the right decoding codec for that avi on the linux box. See if you can save the file to disk, and view it with xanim or mplayer, if not try to find out which codec it is, and see if you can get the linux port of it.
That explains everything. I tried to save the file to the disk, but it doesn't work either with mplayer, etc. I will try to find out which codec is it and see if I can fix it. Thanks Jose
Divx files tend to be avi files as well. Try downloading the divx codec from www.divx.com Paul Kraus -----Original Message----- From: Jose Sanchez [mailto:joseos@okstate.edu] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:16 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Black screen when previewing avi files zentara wrote:
There is alot of different codecs for avi. You probably don't have the right decoding codec for that avi on the linux box. See if you can save
the file to disk, and view it with xanim or mplayer, if not try to find
out which codec it is, and see if you can get the linux port of it.
That explains everything. I tried to save the file to the disk, but it doesn't work either with mplayer, etc. I will try to find out which codec is it and see if I can fix it. Thanks Jose -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Friday 27 June 2003 16:16, Jose Sanchez wrote:
zentara wrote:
There is alot of different codecs for avi. You probably don't have the right decoding codec for that avi on the linux box. See if you can save the file to disk, and view it with xanim or mplayer, if not try to find out which codec it is, and see if you can get the linux port of it.
That explains everything. I tried to save the file to the disk, but it doesn't work either with mplayer, etc. I will try to find out which codec is it and see if I can fix it. Thanks
Jose
Are you using the SuSE flavor of MPlayer - off the CDs/DVD? Or have you recompiled MPlayer from source and added in the win32 codecs that are provided on the MPlayer home page? The SuSE version of MPlayer does NOT include all of the codecs - especially the win32 set. C.
Are you using the SuSE flavor of MPlayer - off the CDs/DVD? Or have you recompiled MPlayer from source and added in the win32 codecs that are provided on the MPlayer home page? The SuSE version of MPlayer does NOT include all of the codecs - especially the win32 set.
I am using the Mplayer provided by SUSE from the ftp site, I will try to recompile the MPlayer from its web site and see what happens. Thanks Jose
On Friday 27 June 2003 17:29, Jose Sanchez wrote:
Are you using the SuSE flavor of MPlayer - off the CDs/DVD? Or have you recompiled MPlayer from source and added in the win32 codecs that are provided on the MPlayer home page? The SuSE version of MPlayer does NOT include all of the codecs - especially the win32 set.
I am using the Mplayer provided by SUSE from the ftp site, I will try to recompile the MPlayer from its web site and see what happens.
That makes a big difference ;-) Follow the instructions provided in the documentation.. it's not too difficult to compile and install. If you get stuck, yell... someone here will point you in the right direction... or point you at the RPM someone made for MPlayer. C.
On Friday 27 June 2003 3:36 pm, Clayton Cornell wrote:
On Friday 27 June 2003 16:16, Jose Sanchez wrote:
zentara wrote:
There is alot of different codecs for avi. You probably don't have the right decoding codec for that avi on the linux box. See if you can save the file to disk, and view it with xanim or mplayer, if not try to find out which codec it is, and see if you can get the linux port of it.
That explains everything. I tried to save the file to the disk, but it doesn't work either with mplayer, etc. I will try to find out which codec is it and see if I can fix it. Thanks
Jose
Are you using the SuSE flavor of MPlayer - off the CDs/DVD? Or have you recompiled MPlayer from source and added in the win32 codecs that are provided on the MPlayer home page? The SuSE version of MPlayer does NOT include all of the codecs - especially the win32 set.
the SuSE flavour of MPlayer includes a script that when run as su will search your ms-windows partition and copy across all codecs it finds into the MPlayer and sets up the codecs file to include them. the script name is: findw32codecs and file:/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/README.SuSE tells you all about it... HTH still can't play those damn avis though... probably didn't have the right codec on my ms-windows partition... :(
C.
the SuSE flavour of MPlayer includes a script that when run as su will search your ms-windows partition and copy across all codecs it finds into the MPlayer and sets up the codecs file to include them.
the script name is: findw32codecs
and file:/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/README.SuSE tells you all about it...
Thanks, I decided to follow the last recomendation. I am not in the mood of reinstalling packages or compiling, etc. So I decide to run the findw32codecs and that was it, I can now see the avi movies. Thank you all for your time and help Jose
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