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| author |  gpoirier <gpoirier@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2> | 2005-03-22 21:32:48 +0000 |
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| committer | gpoirier <gpoirier@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2> | 2005-03-22 21:32:48 +0000 |
| commit | 7ac2ceaca92829f1fb9ef88f1c9263b8255820e3 (patch) | |
| tree | daa9241969459fdb280125791cb42abfdbec93fc /DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml | |
| parent | 7f91e1bfb22f28ded39e82958468a1ad6e57d8e9 (diff) | |
New FAQ entry: Newer MPlayer can't play Vorbis file with an old codecs.conf
lying around because the FourCC for Vobis has been changed recently.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@14989 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
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| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml index 1504eb9b13..6908791bdc 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml @@ -837,6 +837,25 @@ something similar in your config file(s). </qandaentry> <qandaentry> +<question><para>I got this playing a file containing an Ogg/Vorbis file: +Cannot find codec for audio format 0x73627276. Older MPlayer version are OK. +</para></question> +<answer><para> +Similar to the problem above, you have an old version of +<filename>codecs.conf</filename> in +<filename class="directory">~/.mplayer/</filename>, +<filename class="directory">/etc/</filename>, +<filename class="directory">/etc/mplayer</filename>, +<filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/</filename> or similar. Remove it, +it's not needed anymore. +Newer Mplayer versions can't work with an old codecs.conf file because the +FourCC for Vobis has been changed recently. If you have an old codecs.conf +lying around somewhere then it doesn't contain this new FourCC. +Therefore no playback. +</para></answer> +</qandaentry> + +<qandaentry> <question><para> When starting <application>MPlayer</application> under KDE I just get a black screen and nothing happens. After about one minute the video starts playing. |