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Hi Folks,

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:17:17 +1200, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Ron wrote:

>> Go through the isolated URL and replace all
>> the "%2A", "%3F" type entities with their
>> actual characters: / (forward slash)
>> : (semicolon) and so on.

>> That will give you a clean version of a direct
>> link to a video file.

> Thank you for that information.  I was indeed able
> to get the URL using a text editor, and wget was
> able to download the file.

   Excellent !

>  However, when I used
> mplayer to play the file, I got this:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> [flv @ 0x86647b4] Unsupported video codec (7)
> LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed
> TiVo file format detected.
> MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
> MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header
> ----------------------------------------------------
> The file was itag=34 (flv 480 x 360), so mplayer
> should handle it.  Shouldn't it?

  The DOS port of MPlayer certainly does.

  The version that was available for BL does not.

  I had to compile my own static version using SW9, and that only worked
on this machine because I was unable to compile-in CPU detection.
It also runs on my newer machine.

  If you remember, I did post it to my website but it failed to run
properly on other people's machines, so I removed it.

> I'm sure I've run flv videos on mplayer before, but
> perhaps that was my old version of mplayer?  So, I
> tried again using the old mplayer (1.0pre5-3.2.3)
> This time I got:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
> TiVo file format detected.
> MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
> MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header
> Video: Cannot read properties.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Again the message about TiVo file format.

  The versions of MPlayer you have are not new enough to have .flv and 
.mp4 codecs built-in.

> Are utube videos in TiVo file format?

  No. They are either .flv or .mp4 format.

> Can mplayer not do TiVo?

  I have no idea what TiVo is.  :(

Regards,
        Ron

Ron Clarke
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes           http://www.tadpoletunes.com
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