@sundown

Looks very strange, will have a look.

@abalaban

DvPlayer OS4SE version only supports MPEG1/2 files (and VOBs). In addition to that the registered version supports AVI files. It'd be good to know what file format those files are that you're trying to play, can you paste here the text output mplayer makes when opening one of those files?

@COBRA

Sure, I'll do it this evening when I'll be back at home.

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@COBRA

Here is the output :
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MPlayer Epiphany Version (2006-01-06) (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team AltiVec found CPU: PowerPC Playing Persos:RTL9 - L'armée des douze singes - 07-06-2007 20h45 2h40m.ts. Warning streams need a type !!!! TS file format detected. VIDEO MPEG2(pid=68) AUDIO MPA(pid=69) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 1 VIDEO: MPEG2 544x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) VO: [p96_pip] ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 544 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Requested video codec family [mpeg12] (vfm=libmpeg2) not available. Enable it at compilation. Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Requested audio codec family [mp3] (afm=mp3lib) not available. Enable it at compilation. Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mad] afm: libmad (libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3) ========================================================================== [AO SDL] Samplerate: 48000Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16be AO: [sdl] 48000Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 544 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [p96_pip] 544x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12 ANS_LENGTH=-20.490 A-V:30994.576 ct: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 ANS_TIME_POSITION=30996.0-0.277 ct: -0.096 25/ 25 30% 0% 10.5% 0 0

But my main interest wasn't in the fact that DvPlayer will or not play it (I understand that it can not support every codec on earth) but rather the fact that it seems to read most of the file before even trying to play (or refuse to). MPlayer starts playing it after almost 23 secs, on the other end DvPlayer started to load it without ever displaying anything neither returning with an error, I waited so long that finally I decided to reboot rather than wait (what, I don't understand how, invalidated my partition Does DvPlayer write something when trying to read the video ? Because I don't see how my partition can be invalidated with only read accesses.)

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amipal wrote: Unfortunately, when trying to view the episode over my girlfriend's house on her Windows XP PC, I was unable to view it. Neither Microsoft's Windows Media Player or Apple's QuickTime would play the AVI file, which was in an H.264 container format. I tried downloading the appropriate codecs, only to discover a complete lack of administrator privileges. .

With VLC player you would not have had problem to see that avi :)

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@abalaban

No, DvPlayer doesn't write anything to hard disk. Sounds really strange. Can you send me, say the first 10-20MB of that file so that I can have a look at what's going on? You can use a split program to extract the beginning of it.

@COBRA

Ok, I'm generating a 10m extract using split that comes from the SDK. I'll PM you a link where you'll be able to download it.
Thank you for your interest.

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@Seiya

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With VLC player you would not have had problem to see that avi :)

But like I've noted previously, I had no admin rights to install apps...

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amipal wrote:
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But like I've noted previously, I had no admin rights to install apps...

Have you tried the portable version of VLC Player from Portable Apps? The whole Portable Apps suite with all bells and whistles runs on a 512MB USB stick with no hassles or problems - Best of all you don' need no steenkin' Admin Privileges to run.!

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@abalaban

Got it, thanks. It's an MPEG stream, but not an MPEG video stream or MPEG system stream, I have not seen a file like this before. I'll see if I can add support for such files in the next release of DvPlayer.

@COBRA

Ok, thank you.

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