In <20050907220347.M79048@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Per Mellander wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:16:54 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote > > > > However, softplay wouldn't work properly with the XVid files I tried, > > only showing a few corrupt frames. I'm pretty sure it's an ffmpeg > > problem because there were similar problems with some things I've > > been doing myself with ffmpeg lately - I haven't got as far as > > displaying the frames, but it does seem to keep stalling while > > decoding and the Debian package version was complaining about "VOP > > not coded" all the time. > > Which version of xvidcore are you using? The problem I have with softplay is > with a mpeg2 file that plays correctly with MPlayer using libmpeg2 but only > gives a black screen with corrupted audio on softplay. Start and stop works > ok. 1.1.0-beta2. It's a Debian package, but I also downloaded a tarball today which is the same version. > > So will there be a new softdevice and softplay compatible with the > > latest ffmpeg soon? > > I'm using soft[device|play] and ffmpeg, all CVS of 20050905. No problem with > freezing at all. Have you tried CVS of soft[device|play]? No, I was stupid not to think of CVS softdevice. I don't think I'll get a chance to mess around with it all again until next week. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk