no sound for 0x55 in mplayer

alshain · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 7:15 pm Post subject: no sound for 0x55 in mplayer

Hello all,

I've upgraded to the latest mplayer (0.90_pre8) and now the files I encoded with transcode using xVid don't have sound. Mplayer says:
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Can't find codec for audio format 0x55!
*** Try to upgrade /home/andrew/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
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I had no problem playing sound with pre7. There's no /etc/codecs.conf file but mplayer reads /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf which does contain definitions for 0x55, the first being:

;MAD library
audiocodec mad
info "libMAD MPEG layer 1,2,3"
status working
format 0x50
format 0x55
format 0x33706d2e ; ".mp3" CBR/VBR MP3 (MOV files)
format 0x5500736d ; "ms\0\x55" older mp3 fcc (MOV files)
driver libmad
dll "libmad"
flags seekable

and I do have libmad installed. I don't know if it's relevant but when emerging during ./configure mplayer says it can't find xvid. I thought this would only be a problem for encoding, and video plays perfectly.

Any ideas?

Andrew

alshain · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 7:42 pm Post subject:

Don't panic - for some reason ac=hwac3 had crept into my config file

Andrew