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

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi 

> 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.)

A higher priority value means that a decoder will be preferred.

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.

Michael

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