Xvid Avi

[shevegen]

Hi,
whats the best player to watch Xvid Avis under Linux ?

( I must have done something wrong as after compiling Xvid Xine told me it couldnt recognize it. MPlayer played the Avi but it was really way too slow, and the sound wasnt output properly. Wondering also whether someone has some hints on that two topics )

[KpeX]

Which audio output plugin are you using for mplayer?

When using mplayer, compiling xvid shouldn't really be necessary - I've never had any problems playing XviD with mplayer & libavcodec. This sounds like an audio driver problem to me.

[shevegen]

Yes, you are right, it was a sound problem. :)

[shevegen]

Hi again,
i was looking more closely into transcode... is there still development going on? Not that it would be necessary but I am just curious.

Now the question -
For some reason I get an error using tcprobe

tcprobe: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1: cannot open shared object file:

I have no more clue how to fix it, but since avimerge etc... does work, that doesnt bother me much - i believe in there are more solutions to one problem. ;)

Ok, is there anything available, be it perl script, bash script, c script... anything which lets me allow to get some info of an .avi file i have on my pc ?

Something like Gspot, but maybe best if it would be available without a GUI as well.


I need to get some info about some avi files i have

[shevegen]

I think i found at least one solution.
http://www.usinglinux.org/multimedia/avinfo.html
-->
http://shounen.ru/soft/avinfo/avinfo-1.0a13sn1.zip



The "usinglinux" site appears to be rather ok as well, but i am too tired to check it out today. :)

[KpeX]

Yes, I was going to suggest avinfo - it works well for AVI files. I still haven't found a good gspot / mediainfo like app for linux.

[shevegen]

I'll post info when i found more.

mplayer also displays some info when starting (at least in non-GUI),
i think there is a LOT of info available, but the trouble is to find it. ;)

Ah well, but at least I now have a bit more time to dig into it.

It would be nice to have SMALL GUI Apps like Gspot for Linux available though. Anyone tried to run it under wine?

I am wondering if it would work actually... considering with small modifications in conjunction with mplayer (and the coded directory with the .dlls)

[connyosis]

IMHO, there are only two players really for watching movies in Linux, MPlayer and xine. Both are excellent, and usually it's a good thing to have both installed since MPlayer can handle some files xine cannot, and the other way around.
I had some problems myself with newer xvid movies and solved it by using the -vc xvid switch with MPlayer

[shevegen]

Thats true although I have also used kplayer (KDE "mplayer")

I think Mplayer is slightly better than xine because of ... for some reason it had slightly less troubles to play some avi files, and I feel that mplayer gives me more info.

[connyosis]

And for some reason I've had better luck with xine. Still, both are great players and I always install both incase one of them freaks out.

[connyosis]

Cool, I'm looking forward to it.

[s_cristian]

Originally posted by JuanCC
I create a project called QTAVInfo :

http://www.miamihost.net/ims/u/JuanZC/qtavinfo/qtavinfo_screenshot.png

It is write in Perl and run into QT Libraries , in next days , i release a version of this program.

Hi, you released it ? because i can't find the program on google or sourceforge.

Thanks.

[guilc]

There is this software : http://avi-ogminfo.sourceforge.net . There is a wxWindows version (as binaries or sources) and a gtk2 / gtkmm version (only as sources). It works fine for avi / ogg / ogm files and I'm working on the mpeg support with ffmpeg (but I have only a few time, so I'm developping it slowly)...

[KpeX]

Originally posted by guilc
There is this software : http://avi-ogminfo.sourceforge.net . There is a wxWindows version (as binaries or sources) and a gtk2 / gtkmm version (only as sources). It works fine for avi / ogg / ogm files and I'm working on the mpeg support with ffmpeg (but I have only a few time, so I'm developping it slowly)... Hi guilc. Thank you for posting that here. This looks like a useful software. As you mioght notice many of us in the forum are interested in other new containers such as MP4 or Matroska. Hopefully we can see support for these containers in your software someday.

[guilc]

Thanks ;)
I'm now working on a robust mpeg audio/video support with ffmpeg
Then matroska is the next container I will integrate (trough libebml / libmatroska)
I'm not really familiar with mp4, so it will need more research before I can implement it

Any bug report is welcomed :)
I hope I will have enough time to implement this as quickly as possible

[DaveQB]

i love using the GUI frontend for mplayer, but for some reason it only shows the video file in original res. It i try and stretch the window or go full screen theres just a colour border around the original sized window. :confused:

[shevegen]

Re... didnt have internet at home for like +2 weeks, feel like /me gots a lot of reading to do

[frodoontop]

@DaveQB, make sure you got your correct driver loaded with X. The default drivers like vesa don't allow stretching video.

[DaveQB]

Yeah ok that must be it. I am not in Direct Rendering mode.
I cant get my ATI VGA drivers working (nVidia2 chipset) for the life of me. Tried just about everything. 1 last thing to try but it takes 1-2 hours and i havent the time as yet.

I just play games in Windows :)

Totem and Xine work fine in full screen though and mplayer started from the Shell works fine in full screen too.


thanx :)