Unable to play h.264 video.

[leadgolem]

I have totem-xine mplayer and vlc installed. None of them seem able to play this video type, regardless of the container. I got the same problem with .mov .avi and .mkv containers.

I have x264.x86_64 installed.

Totem-xine mplayer and vlc are all installed from the livna repository. Searching my repos and this forum came up with nothing helpful.

I really would like to get this working in mplayer, since that is my primary video plugin for firefox.

[Seve]

Hello:
I just tested an .avi and .mov file with vlc and mplayer and it plays fine here ?
Don't have any of the others handy to test at the moment, sorry.
Here is what I have installed, hopefully it helps, as I honestly don't know which is what

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# yum list | grep vlc
vlc.x86_64                               0.8.6c-1.lvn7          installed 


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# yum list | grep -F mplayer
mplayer.x86_64                           1.0-0.76.20070612svn.l installed       
mplayer-fonts.noarch                     1.1-4.lvn6             installed       
mplayer-gui.x86_64                       1.0-0.76.20070612svn.l installed       
mplayer-skins.noarch                     1.8-1                  installed       
mplayerplug-in.x86_64                    3.40-1.lvn7            installed       
mplayerplug-in.i386                      3.40-1.lvn7            installed 


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# yum list | grep -F gstreamer
gstreamer.x86_64                         0.10.12-1.fc7          installed       
gstreamer.i386                           0.10.12-1.fc7          installed       
gstreamer-devel.x86_64                   0.10.12-1.fc7          installed       
gstreamer-devel.i386                     0.10.12-1.fc7          installed       
gstreamer-ffmpeg.x86_64                  0.10.2-2.lvn7          installed       
gstreamer-plugins-bad.x86_64             0.10.4-2.lvn7.1        installed       
gstreamer-plugins-bad-devel.x86_64       0.10.4-2.lvn7.1        installed       
gstreamer-plugins-base.x86_64            0.10.12-2.fc7          installed       
gstreamer-plugins-base.i386              0.10.12-2.fc7          installed       
gstreamer-plugins-base-devel.i386        0.10.12-2.fc7          installed       
gstreamer-plugins-base-devel.x86_64      0.10.12-2.fc7          installed       
gstreamer-plugins-farsight.x86_64        0.12.1-1.fc7           installed       
gstreamer-plugins-good.x86_64            0.10.5-6.fc7           installed       
gstreamer-plugins-good-devel.i386        0.10.5-6.fc7           installed       
gstreamer-plugins-good-devel.x86_64      0.10.5-6.fc7           installed       
gstreamer-plugins-pulse.x86_64           0.9.4-4.fc7            installed       
gstreamer-plugins-ugly.x86_64            0.10.5-2.lvn7          installed       
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-devel.x86_64      0.10.5-2.lvn7          installed       
gstreamer-python.x86_64                  0.10.7-2.fc7           installed       
gstreamer-tools.x86_64                   0.10.12-1.fc7          installed 


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# yum list | grep -F xine
totem-xine.x86_64                        2.18.0-1.lvn7          installed       
totem-xine-plparser.x86_64               2.18.0-1.lvn7          installed       
xine-lib.x86_64                          1.1.7-1.fc7            installed       
xine-lib.i386                            1.1.7-1.fc7            installed       
xine-lib-extras.x86_64                   1.1.7-1.fc7            installed       
xine-lib-extras-nonfree.x86_64           1.1.7-1.lvn7           installed       
xinetd.x86_64                            2:2.3.14-12.fc7        installed 


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 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 14:56:37 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 


Seve

[leadgolem]

Hmm, my vlc xine and mplayer installs look about the same as yours. I have a few extra .i386 things installed. I don't have the gstreamer-devel stuff installed, but otherwise the same there also. Kernel is the same.

Did you install the codecs from the Stanton Finley guide?

[Seve]

Originally Posted by leadgolem

Hmm, my vlc xine and mplayer installs look about the same as yours. I have a few extra .i386 things installed. I don't have the gstreamer-devel stuff installed, but otherwise the same there also. Kernel is the same.

Did you install the codecs from the Stanton Finley guide?

Hello:
Yes, I'm sorry I forgot to add that.
I used the package from ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele...061022.tar.bz2
Now, you're wondering where I put them ?? Let me check
/usr/local/lib/codecs
/usr/local/lib64/codecs
/usr/lib/codecs
/usr/lib64/codecs
/usr/lib/win32
/usr/lib64/win32

and I think that's it.

Seve

[leadgolem]

Hmm, that does not appear to have been effective. Would you take a look at this video stream and let me know if you can see it?

[Seve]

Hello:
Nope I cannot play that ... it sends firefox wild .. using 100% cpu

Seve

[leadgolem]

Oh well, looks like a problem with the "quicktime" video streams from here then.

[Seve]

Hello:
It did manage to play here, although my connection to their server is pretty lousy.

See the attached.

Seve

[leadgolem]

If the server is that bad, maybe I won't worry about the h264 video. Out of curiosity, do you have port 32788 open? That is where I always get stuck.

[Seve]

Hello:
I fired it up again today and the stream was a little bit better, but not much.
My guess is that the lack of a sustainable stream from the server is the real issue.

Yes, I have seen the same port thing, however, I did not adjust anything with my firewall(s)

Seve