Ok, this is a weird one...
Lately I've been finding some videos are not playable using mplayer on my media
center frontend. Which is kind of, you know. It's job. These videos pretty much
hang with the message:
Unexpected decoder output format Planar YV12
repeated constantly.
Now the funny thing is they play just fine on another machine, with hthe same
version of Ubuntu, same version of mplayer, same version of the nvidia binary
driver, same vdpau, etc.
The only difference I can find is this. When I run "vdpauinfo" on the media
center, I get (among other results) this:
Decoder capabilities:
name level macbs width height
-------------------------------------------
MPEG1 0 8192 2048 2048
MPEG2_SIMPLE 3 8192 2048 2048
MPEG2_MAIN 3 8192 2048 2048
H264_MAIN 41 8190 2032 2048
H264_HIGH 41 8190 2032 2048
VC1_SIMPLE 1 8190 2048 2048
VC1_MAIN 2 8190 2048 2048
VC1_ADVANCED 4 8190 2048 2048
On the machine that IS capable of playing the videos, I get all those and in
addition get these:
MPEG4_PART2_SP 3 8192 2048 2048
MPEG4_PART2_ASP 5 8192 2048 2048
DIVX4_QMOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX4_MOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX4_HOME_THEATER 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX4_HD_1080P 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX5_QMOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX5_MOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX5_HOME_THEATER 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX5_HD_1080P 0 8192 2048 2048
This is the only difference I can find. And I have NO IDEA where it's coming
from, or if it has anything to do with anything, or if ANY of this makes any
kind of sense.
Anyone have any ideas?...
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