[vlc] Re: OS X DiVX Decoders

Thu Mar 13 17:12:40 CET 2003

OK, i have worked around the issue of alien.avi.
It is not truly a fix, because it is an error on the encoder side, but 
it seems our decoder knows how to work around it.
i therefore simply said to it: We support 3vid
It should be working in the next version.

On donderdag, maa 13, 2003, at 07:50 Europe/Amsterdam, Joshua Bernstein 
wrote:
> Anyway, it looks like the movie I encoded with dvd:rip (Linux) and 
> running the 0.5.1a client, it worked nicely. With the .5.2 client the 
> vidoe still played, but it played a bit slower... Anyway the mal-form 
> verison will be a rip of Alien called Alien.avi and the Right Video, 
> the one that works is the ShawshankRedemption...
>
> They will be listed as download at:
> http://fugazi.engr.arizona.edu/~josh/Alien.avi      and        
> http://fugazi.engr.arizona.edu/~josh/ShawshankRedemption.avi
> they'll be up there as soon as my upload finishes... Let me know if 
> you find anything...
>
>
> -Josh
>
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 04:30  PM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
>
>> Could you send me a copy of this file in any way?
>> That would really be helpful.
>> Maybe you can put it on a webserver somewhere?
>> If your mail-account allows it you can also send it to 
>> pjotr at sidekick.student.utwente.nl
>>
>> DJ
>>
>> On woensdag, maa 12, 2003, at 23:42 Europe/Amsterdam, Derk-Jan 
>> Hartman wrote:
>>
>>> On woensdag, maa 12, 2003, at 23:21 Europe/Amsterdam, Joshua 
>>> Bernstein wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> It should report 3DIV (Divx 3).
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Well our design is quite different from mplayer so i have no idea. I 
>>> just work on OSX interfaces. This is more hardcore than that.
>>>
>>>> Actually doing this type of thing is way over my head though. So is 
>>>> this an OS X VLC problem, The VLC linix binary?
>>>
>>> Well it is a Mac problem. it should also show on Linux running on a 
>>> Mac.
>>>
>>>> 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...
>>>
>>> You need an encoder which isn't based on ffmpeg (although maybe 
>>> newer versions have a fix for this). i don't know such an encoder 
>>> for the mac at the moment.
>>>
>>>> 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...
>>>
>>> That's because your windows machine uses a different type of CPU.
>>> It's hard to explain. i hardly understand it.
>>> There is no point in running CVS at the moment. a bug is a bug.
>>> And never a bother.
>>>
>>> DJ
>>>
>>>> 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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