[vlc] Re: OS X DiVX Decoders

[Joshua Bernstein]

Excellent!!! Thats makes me quite happy to hear this... Do you have a  
DIFF or patch I can apply to the .5.2 code so I can try it out? I'm  
really looking forward to putting together a demonstration of VideoLan  
for my Boss pretty soon. Any idea when the update might come out? I'm  
always living on the edge...

-Josh

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 09:12  AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:

> 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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-Joshua Bernstein
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