[MPlayer-users] not auto detecting best codec!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:22:58PM -0400, joel at viedigi.com wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> Hello Everyone,
> I'm having probs I can not seem to solve. :( I probably is a simple thing.
> 
> Mplayer dev-CVS-03001
> EPIA-M10000 motherboard (can not get via driver to work properly, so using vesa in x11)
> 
> When playing DVDs, seems to always choose mpeg2 decoding, with
> awefull playback. When I force another codec, divx4 or odivx, there
> are always problems finding a -vo driver.

DVDs are mpeg2 content. You cannot play them with an mpeg4 (divx)
decoder! You want to try using different vo (video output) drivers,
not different codecs!

> When trying to stream a windows media 9 format file, with DRM,
> mplayer chooses Windows Media 8 format, and does not work. When
> forcing it to wmv9dmo, same situation, can not find a matching -vo
> device.

MPlayer does not play files with DRM, as far as I know.

Rich