[packman] wma not functioning in openSUSE-11.2

Sun Nov 15 21:30:57 CET 2009

Manfred Tremmel wrote:
> I've downloaded the "Allegro" example and played with xine, vlc and 
> mplayer without any problem. The video "niceday.wmv" makes a little bit 
> problems mplayer has no video when playing niceday.wmv (Video: no 
> video), xine and vlc only play I-frames ([wmv3 @ 0xfd42f0]Old WMV3 
> version detected, only I-frames will be decoded) but Sound is ok in any 
> case.
>
> What output do you get, when you try to play one of this two files from 
> a konsole window ("xine niceday.wmv" or "vlc  niceday.wmv" or "mplayer  
> niceday.wmv")?
>   
I can play both .wma and .wmv on 11.1 with xine, MPlayer and ffplay on
11.1 with no problem. Vlc will not play the .wmv video portion (but will
play audio) on neither 11.1 nor 11.2.

The results below are from 11.2 (and results are consistent on 2
different PCs (different hardware) with 11.2 - suggesting I am making a
systemic mistake if I am making a mistake):

MPlayer playing the .wma (I only hear very very faint scratching/static
at maximum volume - possibly system noise):

oldcpu at athlon:~/temp> mplayer BachCPE_SonataAmin_1.wma
MPlayer dev-SVN-r29796-4.4-openSUSE Linux 11.2 (i686)-Packman (C)
2000-2009 MPlayer TeamCan't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such
file or directory
Can't init input joystick
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 BachCPE_SonataAmin_1.wma.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Clip info:
title:
author:
copyright:
comments:
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 4003->88200)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 20.0 (20.0) of 149.0 (02.29.0) 0.4%

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MPlayer playing the .wmv (I get the video, but again no sound except for
very faint scratching/static (system noise ? ) at max volume:

oldcpu at athlon:~/temp> mplayer niceday.wmv
MPlayer dev-SVN-r29796-4.4-openSUSE Linux 11.2 (i686)-Packman (C)
2000-2009 MPlayer TeamCan't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such
file or directory
Can't init input joystick
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 niceday.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [WMV3] 320x240 24bpp 1000.000 fps 250.0 kbps (30.5 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
title:
author:
copyright:
comments:
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
Decoder supports the following formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU RGB8 RGB555
RGB565 RGB24 RGB32
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vdpau] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfm: dmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 65.6 kbit/4.65% (ratio: 8205->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A: 37.7 V: 37.7 A-V: 0.000 ct: 0.002 518/518 5% 3% 1.1% 0 0

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vlc playing the .wmv - obtain audio with no video:

olcpu at athlon:~/temp> vlc niceday.wmv
VLC media player 1.0.3 Goldeneye
[0x80ed6f8] main interface error: option x11-display does not exist
[0x804f510] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0x81031f0] main interface error: option x11-display does not exist
Old WMV3 version detected, only I-frames will be decoded
[0x826a880] freetype spu text error: failed to load font file
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/FreeSerifBold.ttf
commandline read: vlc
commandline read: niceday.wmv

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.2.8 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(c) 2001-2008 The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community
(c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
----------------------------------------------------------------

(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2009-10-24 04:44)
(!) DirectFB/core/vt: Error opening `/dev/tty0'!
--> Permission denied
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core!
--> Initialization error!
[0x8299ba8] directfb video output error: Cannot create primary surface
[0x8299ba8] fb video output error: cannot get terminal mode (Invalid
argument)

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xine plays playing .wmv (both audio and video work):

oldcpu at athlon:~/temp> xine niceday.wmv
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.6cvs.
(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.
socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
[wmv3 @ 0x90c5d60]Old WMV3 version detected, only I-frames will be decoded

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ffplay plays both .wmv and .wma fine (but I only copied .wma lines):

oldcpu at athlon:~/temp> ffplay BachCPE_SonataAmin_1.wma
FFplay version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
built on Nov 11 2009 22:12:55 with gcc 4.4.1 [gcc-4_4-branch revision
150839]
configuration: --shlibdir=/usr/lib --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--libdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis
--enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac
--enable-nonfree --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-gpl
--enable-x11grab --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libdirac
--enable-libgsm --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb
--enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libdc1394
--enable-pthreads
libavutil 50. 4. 0 / 50. 4. 0
libavcodec 52.38. 1 / 52.38. 1
libavformat 52.39. 2 / 52.39. 2
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
Input #0, asf, from 'BachCPE_SonataAmin_1.wma':
Duration: 00:02:27.77, start: 1.578000, bitrate: 33 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: wmav2, 22050 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 32 kb/s
Metadata
title :
author :
copyright :
comment :
WMFSDKVersion : 9.00.00.2980
WMFSDKNeeded : 0.0.0.0000
IsVBR : 0