RE: [xine-user] Forcing codec to be used for playback

[Aleksey S. <za...@ob...>]

>> Is there a way to tell xine which codec to use for playback? Something
>> along the lines of -vc and -ac options of mplayer?
>>
>> The reason I am asking is that I have several WMV8 video streams that
xine
>> cannot play because it uses ffmpeg??? which is broken. I could play those
>> streams with mplayer if I do -vc wmv8, -ac wmadmo, but mplayer is nothing
>> close to xine when it comes to buffering network streams. So is there a
way
>> to force codecs on xine?
>
> There is a thing called "decoder priorites" for that in xine. You can
> configure the decoder priorites in the config dialog on the "decoder" tab.
> (You might need to increase your user experience level to see these
entries.)

I found those in .xine/config, so I solved my problem for now by changing
priorities. However, next time I come about a stream that xine has problems
playing... could I change those priorities from command line?


> But actually, with the default priorities, which is "all zero" for recent
> versions of xine-lib, the Windows DLL decoder should already be used
before
> ffmpeg. So check, if all prioroties are set to zero. Also make sure you
have
> the win32 decoder plugin xineplug_decode_w32dll.so actually installed.

I have libxine1*1-rc5-1*deb installed, that indeed has
xineplug_decode_w32dll.so, but I still had it using ffmpeg before Windows
DLL for WMV8 streams.

Aleksey