[gentoo-user] Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

[gentoo-user] Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

[Alexander Skwar]

Hi!

I'm trying to watch the movie on 
http://www.tivi.de/fernsehen/loewenzahn/video/15478/index.html in
Windows Media format and with Modem/ISDN quality. In essence, this
will play <mms://ms.mdcs.dtag.de/zdf/tivi/061009_loewenzahn_peters_neues_zuhause_l.wmv>.
When I click on the http link above or directly load the mms URL in
Totem, I only hear the audio; no video is shown. In the terminal,
from which I started Totem, I see:

alexander@blatt ~ $ totem mms://ms.mdcs.dtag.de/zdf/tivi/061009_loewenzahn_peters_neues_zuhause_l.wmv
** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-wmv, wmvversion=(int)3, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)200, height=(int)152, codec_data=(buffer)44191a01
** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-wmv, wmvversion=(int)3, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)200, height=(int)152, codec_data=(buffer)44091a01
** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-wmv, wmvversion=(int)3, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)200, height=(int)152, codec_data=(buffer)44091a01

What do I have to do, to be able to watch this video with Totem?

I'm using an ~x86 system and basically only Gnome.

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

[Ric de France]

Hi Alexander,

On 14/10/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to watch the movie on
> http://www.tivi.de/fernsehen/loewenzahn/video/15478/index.html in
> Windows Media format and with Modem/ISDN quality. In essence, this
> will play <mms://ms.mdcs.dtag.de/zdf/tivi/061009_loewenzahn_peters_neues_zuhause_l.wmv>.
> When I click on the http link above or directly load the mms URL in
> Totem, I only hear the audio; no video is shown. In the terminal,
> from which I started Totem, I see:
>
> alexander@blatt ~ $ totem mms://ms.mdcs.dtag.de/zdf/tivi/061009_loewenzahn_peters_neues_zuhause_l.wmv
> ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-wmv, wmvversion=(int)3, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)200, height=(int)152, codec_data=(buffer)44191a01
> ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-wmv, wmvversion=(int)3, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)200, height=(int)152, codec_data=(buffer)44091a01
> ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-wmv, wmvversion=(int)3, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)200, height=(int)152, codec_data=(buffer)44091a01

My totem flags are as follows:

<snip>
# emerge -pv totem

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/totem-1.4.2-r1  USE="dbus dvd gnome mad
mpeg ogg vorbis xine xv -a52 -debug -firefox -flac -lirc -nsplugin
-nvtv -theora" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
</snip>

I am able to play the video with sound (by cutting and pasting the
totem mms line from your e-mail). Off the top of my head, I'd look in
your make.conf file to see if you've enabled USE="win32codecs" as
well. After adding that to your use flags, try:

# emerge -DNuva world

and see if it picks it up. You may require installing the xine-lib (as
you see from my totem flags, I've got support for xine). Looking at
xine-lib, my USE flags are:

<snip>
# emerge -pv xine-lib

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.2-r2  USE="X alsa asf dvd esd
gnome imagemagick ipv6 mad nls opengl oss sdl vorbis win32codecs xv
-a52 -aac -aalib (-altivec) -arts -debug -directfb -dts -dxr3 -fbcon
-flac -libcaca -mng -modplug -samba -speex -theora -v4l -vcd -vidix
-xinerama -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -i810 -via" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
</snip>

HTH,

...Ric
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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

[b.n.]

> What do I have to do, to be able to watch this video with Totem?

*with Totem*, I don't know.
have you tried using xine/mplayer?

m.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

[Alexander Skwar]

b.n. <brullonulla@gmail.com>:

>> What do I have to do, to be able to watch this video with Totem?
> 
> *with Totem*, I don't know.
> have you tried using xine/mplayer?

With mplayer, I've got an error message to the effect, that avisynth.dll
couldn't be found - true, a "locate avisynth.dll" returned nothing.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

[Ric de France]

Alexander,

On 15/10/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> b.n. <brullonulla@gmail.com>:
>
> >> What do I have to do, to be able to watch this video with Totem?
> >
> > *with Totem*, I don't know.
> > have you tried using xine/mplayer?
>
> With mplayer, I've got an error message to the effect, that avisynth.dll
> couldn't be found - true, a "locate avisynth.dll" returned nothing.

This sounds like you're missing win32codecs being installed - or if
you have them installed, then you didn't compile the apps with the
appropriate USE flag (I think I've made mention of this in a previous
e-mail... Anyway... I tried the video you originally mentioned and got
this:

<snip>
$ mplayer mms://ms.mdcs.dtag.de/zdf/tivi/061009_loewenzahn_peters_neues_zuhause_l.wmv
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:               Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15,
Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
MMX2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE SSE2


93 audio & 211 video codecs

Playing mms://ms.mdcs.dtag.de/zdf/tivi/061009_loewenzahn_peters_neues_zuhause_l.wmv.
STREAM_ASF, URL:
mms://ms.mdcs.dtag.de/zdf/tivi/061009_loewenzahn_peters_neues_zuhause_l.wmv
Resolving ms.mdcs.dtag.de for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ms.mdcs.dtag.de[217.237.151.84]: 1755...
Connected
file object, packet length = 2888 (2888)
unknown object
unknown object
unknown object
stream object, stream ID: 1
stream object, stream ID: 2
stream object, stream ID: 3
stream object, stream ID: 4
unknown object
unknown object
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 2888
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
VIDEO:  [WMV3]  200x152  24bpp  1000.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 name: ZDF
 author: ZDF
 copyright: � 2006 ZDF
 comments:
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 8.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 1000->16000)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
GetOutput r=0x0   size:91200  align:1
StreamCount r=0x0  1  1
Decoder supports the following formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU RGB8
RGB555 RGB565 RGB24 RGB32
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
VDec: vo config request - 200 x 152 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 200x152 => 200x152 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfm: dmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 8000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...

...Boring stuff removed....

</snip>

HTH,

...Ric
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