No Videos Work, Please Help

[Julia Renning]

Hi,

I successfully compiled 1.6.0, and it looks like everything should work. But
attempting to open any video gives me:

This does not appear to be a valid video or image file

LiVES was unable to open it.

The terminal output just says "Playback speed not found or invalid ! Using
default fps of 25.000 fps." And later that it failed.

If I open Lives in a terminal and run it I get:

---

* Your system is too SLOW to play this!
*******

But I know that's not true, because it runs Kdenlive, OpenShot, and every
other program with no difficulties.

It doesn't matter what filetype I try to open, I get the same errors.

From this thread, I tried this:

LANGUAGE=en LANG=en /usr/bin/mplayer -quiet -osdlevel 0 -vo png:z=0:alpha
-noframedrop -ao sdl -channels 2 -mc 0
'/mnt/sda4/vids/Syrian_Snake_Eaters_and_Puppy_Stranglers.mp4'

And it filled the folder with png files before saying:

Playing /mnt/sda4/vids/Syrian_Snake_Eaters_and_Puppy_Stranglers.mp4.

libavformat file format detected.

stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0

stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang und

VIDEO: 512x384 24bpp 29.970 fps 363.4 kbps (44.4 kbyte/s)

Clip info:

major_brand: isom

minor_version: 512

compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41

creation_time: 1970-01-01 00:00:00

encoder: Lavf52.92.0

Load subtitles in /mnt/sda4/vids/

==========================================================================

Opening video decoder: FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family

Selected video codec: vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)

==========================================================================

==========================================================================

Opening audio decoder: FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders

AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 48.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio: 5997->88200)

Selected audio codec: afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))

==========================================================================

No such audio driver 'sdl'

Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.

Audio: no sound

Starting playback...

Unsupported PixelFormat 61

Unsupported PixelFormat 53

Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...

Opening video filter:

Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.

using unscaled yuv420p -> bgra special converter

VO: 512x384 => 512x384 BGRA

Warning: compression level set to 0, compression disabled!

Info: Use -vo png:z=<n> to set compression level from 0 to 9.

Info: (0 = no compression, 1 = fastest, lowest - 9 best, slowest compression)

png: . - Output directory already exists and is writable.

Exiting... (End of file)

Play a file with Mplayer, works like a top. No problems. If I click
"Troubleshoot" under the Help button, it says everything is there and working.

Any ideas on what it could be?

[Salsaman]

Hi,

can you try with the latest version (1.6.1) and see if the problem is still
occuring.

[Julia Renning]

I just tried, but compiling gives this error:

callbacks.c: In function 'on_record_perf_activate':

callbacks.c:3810:31: warning: dereferencing 'void *' pointer

callbacks.c:3810:31: error: request for member 'audio_ticks' in something not
a structure or union

callbacks.c: In function 'on_fs_preview_clicked':

callbacks.c:6055:6: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned
int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'

callbacks.c:6060:6: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned
int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'

make: *** Error 1

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/LiVES-1.6.1/src'

make: *** Error 1

[Salsaman]

Ah, then you need this patch (from subversion):

http://lives.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lives/trunk/src/callbacks.c?r1=1462&r
2=1465

[Julia Renning]

Thanks.

It compiled now. But it's still the same problem as before with 1.6.0.

[Salsaman]

No idea then. I'm sorry.