On Wednesday 29 December 2010 18:11:54 Robert Bronsdon wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:09:31 -0000, Tim <xendis...@gmx.com> wrote: > > I installed Debian squeeze and the xfce desktop, thankfully most thing > > worked > > out the box, the one that does not is playing .wmv video. I am using the > > VLC > > player to view these video but all I get is the audio track no video, > > the > > following link is a sample on one of the files I am trying to view > > (downloading > > a playing locally, it is a series of digital images made into a movie > > with an > > added sound track using MS Photo Story 3) > > > > http://www.windriders.co.uk/video/eastbourne2007small.wmv > > I can confirm the problem is a lack of video. I can play other .wmv files > fine but this one just has sound. > > Whoever put the video together has missed a setting somewhere and made an > audio only file. Unless there is some strange microsoft jiggery pokery > going on to hide the video track. > > The file does seem aweful big for just audio. > > If you hunt through the below you'll notice mplayer doesn't even look for > a video codec. It just reports no video stream. > > $ mplayer eastbourne2007small.wmv > MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team > 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 eastbourne2007small.wmv. > ASF file format detected. > [asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1 > [asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2 > VIDEO: [WVP2] 800x600 24bpp 1000.000 fps 31.8 kbps ( 3.9 kbyte/s) > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory > [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 > ========================================================================== > Requested video codec family [wmvadmo] (vfm=dmo) not available. > Enable it at compilation. > Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x32505657. > ========================================================================== > ========================================================================== > Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 105.3 kbit/7.46% (ratio: 13159->176400) > Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg)) > ========================================================================== > AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) > Video: no video > Starting playback...
I made the video and I can confirm that there is a video feed in the file as well. I can download it and play it locally on my PC with KMPlayer or play it through the web broswer (not quite sure what chrome uses). When I try through the chrome browser on the wifes PC I get missing plugin. My PC is running Mepis 8 which is a lenny based distro Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
