On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:03:41 +1300 Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote: > > >On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:56:05 +1300 > >Richard Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>That worked, & i can confirm that the FreeBSD 5.4 Totem with Gstreamer > >>does play video clips as packaged, where the > >>Ubuntu 5.04 version did not (until Xine substituted in). Will test > >>Ubuntu 5.10 asap. > >> > >> > > > >which videoclips did not play with ubuntu and what codecs did they use? > > > > > there's a short of 'Revolution O/S' on the SFD'04 OpenCD: REV_OS_trailer.mpg > > it runs with totem/xine (but not totem/gstreamer, 'out of the box') on > Ubu5.04 & 5.10, tho > > "FreeBSD 5.4 Totem with Gstreamer" plays it fine. This might be a 'non-free' > issue. > > > i've not looked at any codec settings. > > maybe you can test from your RO/S dvd? Is that a .mpg? It's not my DVD unfortunately. However the file REV_OS_trailer.mpg (18M) is downloadable from here: http://www.revolution-os.com/musicvideo.html I assume it is the same one. mplayer plays it fine. totem plays it fine, using xine I assume. I haven't ever had much luck with gstreamer, never needed it. The file is a very basic mpeg-1 stream. If a given media player cannot play it, it doesn't deserve that description. I see that gstreamer has many plugins, that all seem to be packaged separately. Maybe there is a gst plugin that you need? I see one in my packaging system called gst-plugins-ffmpeg and another called gst-plugins-mpeg2dec. The latter is described as "Libmpeg2 based decoder plug-in for gstreamer". mplayer tells me that it is using libmpeg2 to decode the file, so gstreamer may work if gst-plugins-mpeg2dec is installed. By the way here are some tests to determine the codec used: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/media $ file REV_OS_trailer.mpg REV_OS_trailer.mpg: MPEG sequence, v1, system multiplex (that gives a pretty good indication of being an mpeg-1 stream) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/media $ tcprobe -i REV_OS_trailer.mpg [tcprobe] MPEG program stream (PS) (as does that) [tcprobe] summary for REV_OS_trailer.mpg, (*) = not default, 0 = not detected import frame size: -g 352x240 [720x576] (*) aspect ratio: 4:3 (*) frame rate: -f 29.970 [25.000] frc=4 (*) PTS=47721.8588, frame_time=33 ms, bitrate=1150 kbps audio track: -a 0 [0] -e 44100,16,2 [48000,16,2] -n 0x50 [0x2000] (*) bitrate=224 kbps [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/media $ ffmpeg -i REV_OS_trailer.mpg ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4743, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard configuration: --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --enable-shared-pp --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-mmx --disable-altivec --disable-debug --enable-mp3lame --enable-a52 --disable-a52bin --enable-audio-oss --enable-v4l --enable-dv1394 --enable-dc1394 --disable-pthreads --enable-xvid --enable-ogg --enable-vorbis --enable-dts --enable-network --enable-zlib --enable-ffplay --enable-faad --enable-faac --disable-faadbin --enable-gpl --enable-pp --disable-opts built on Sep 30 2005 17:17:47, gcc: 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8) Input #0, mpeg, from 'REV_OS_trailer.mpg': Duration: 00:01:51.9, start: 0.340078, bitrate: 1412 kb/s Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg1video, 352x240, 29.97 fps Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s Must supply at least one output file > > cheers, > > -- > Richard Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz> on: > Ubuntu GNU/Linux 5.10 free OS, 2.6.12-9-686 kernel, GNOME 2.12.1 desktop > OpenOffice.org 1.9.129 suite, Mozilla 1.7.12 browser + Firefox 1.0.7 > Thunderbird 1.0.7 email, Gedit 2.12.1 web editor, gFTP 2.0.18 filexfer >
