[Howto] MPlayer with CoreAVC

[blablu]

HymnToLife thanks for this great guide.

I'm having this problem:

Hi! thanks for this wonderful guide. I was able to follow it, compile mplayer and edit codecs.conf. But whenever I run it, it shows:

Forced video codec: coreserve
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

So I get no video. Any help is appreciated.

Got this resolved!

But unfortunately I couldn't get this resolved!
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

[Bachstelze]

Most likely you are trying to play a video that is not an AVC stream. CoreAVC can only decode AVC streams, and won't work on other formats.

[blablu]

I thought that all h264 encoded videos were AVC streams.

[ripps818]

Did you add the codec coreserve to your ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf? coreserve won't work just by installing the codec, dshowserver, and mplayer.

http://code.google.com/p/coreavc-for...erInstallation

Also, remember to put "-vc coreserve,", notice the comma at the end, that tells mplayer to fallback to other codecs if coreserve doesn't work.

[Bachstelze]

I thought that all h264 encoded videos were AVC streams.

They are. H.264 (not "h264", by the way) is just another name for MPEG-4 AVC. Are you sure the video you are trying to play is H.264? The error you're getting is the one I get when I try to play a non-H.264 stream with CoreAVC.

[blablu]

solved!

My problem was that I was using /usr/bin/mplayer instead of /usr/local/bin/mplayer.

Thanks for your help guys!

[binbash]

Very good step by step guide.I will test this on my other notebook which has some problems with x264

[blablu]

Anybody got it to work with smplayer?

for some reason it doesn't like me puttin rc=coreserve inside .mplayer/config. Though mplayer alone is fine.

thanks again for your time!

[binbash]

I am getting this error:

 dshowserver -c CoreAVCDecoder.ax -s 1280x800 -g 09571a4b-f1fe-4c60-9760de6d310c7c31 -b 12 -f 0x34363248 -o 0x30323449
No id specified, assuming test mode
Opening device
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: CoreAVCDecoder.ax, /usr/lib/win32/CoreAVCDecoder.ax, /usr/local/lib/win32/CoreAVCDecoder.ax
Warning: DS_Filter() could not open DirectShow DLL.  (DLL=CoreAVCDecoder.ax)
Failed to create DirectShow filter
Failed to open win32 codec CoreAVCDecoder.ax

[binbash]

got it working, forgot to copy the file.Thanks again