[vlc] Re: OS X DiVX Decoders

[Joshua Bernstein]

So there is something wrong with FourCC flipping? What exactly does that 
mean? Does that mean that the library reading the encoder type should 
report 3VID instead of VID3? And what about the audio? Will VLC ever 
learn to handle this type of bug? It seems that if Mplayer can work 
aroung this, a patch to the VLC code taken from the routines in Mplayer 
to handle this should work? Actually doing this type of thing is way 
over my head though. So is this an OS X VLC problem, The VLC linix 
binary? Also, are there any known encoders that will compress to DiVX 
that don't cause this problem? It seems that ever movie I've encoded 
with this particular program causes these issues... Cause it worked fine 
on my Win2k box. Anyway, It would help me to understand if I had a bit 
more explanation... Maybe, I can run a CVS version of a library 
someplace? Sorry to be a bother...

-Josh

Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:

> Actually, i think this might be the problem.
> http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2002-June/009258.html
>
> This is a serious issue. an endian issue and if i read it correctly, 
> then it is actually the fault of the encoder.
> mplayer just knows how to deal with this issue, but we don't.
>
> Derk-Jan Hartman.
>
> On woensdag, maa 12, 2003, at 20:35 Europe/Amsterdam, Derk-Jan Hartman 
> wrote:
>
>> Try deleting your preferences.
>> HOME/Library/Preferences/VLC/vlcrc
>> It looks like you set a decoder by hand or something instead of it 
>> being determined automatically.
>>
>> Derk-Jan Hartman
>>
>> On woensdag, maa 12, 2003, at 19:26 Europe/Amsterdam, Joshua 
>> Bernstein wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Guys,
>>>
>>>     Just installed VLC for the first time and it ran very nicely on 
>>> my Linux server. I streamed a full DiVX right to my windows desktop 
>>> without an issue. Unfortuenately though, I could careless about 
>>> windows as I usually run on my OS X Laptop. But I get the following 
>>> when trying to stream a unicast video. A window just pops up with:
>>>
>>> main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `mpga'.
>>> VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
>>> main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `3VID'.
>>> VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
>>> main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `mpga'.
>>> VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
>>>
>>> What packages or what not am I missing? I know that VLC will play 
>>> this stream. It worked beautifuly on my Win2k desktop? Is it just a 
>>> limitation of that OS X client? Is there a CVS I can try. I know I'm 
>>> missing something simple.
>>
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-- 
Joshua Bernstein
Systems Administrator
College of Engineering
University of Arizona, Tucson, USA



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