MP4 Player on Fedora 12?

RobinQi · #1 8th February 2010, 02:27 PM

Usually I use Dragon Player most of the time. It plays low resolution files fine but somehow has trouble decoding the 1080p/30p video clips I shot with my Sanyo VPC-FH1. The images appears fuzzy and look like ghosts.

I am not sure what codec does Sanyo use, but I would imagine it is some sort of AVCHD variation.

Could anyone recommend a good MP4 player which can handle these HD videos?

Thanks in advance!

mthei · #2 8th February 2010, 08:02 PM

Usually VLC or Mplayer come in handy for high quality video formats. You can install both via YUM.

RobinQi · #3 10th February 2010, 02:21 PM

Tried that. The same as Dragon player. The sound is ok, but the video is all fuzzy and ghost like.

**AdamW** · #4 10th February 2010, 07:29 PM

It's possible that they're all using ffmpeg to play back the file, and ffmpeg's handling of this kind of file is broken. Can you run mplayer on the file with the '-v' option and post what it prints to the console?

RobinQi · #5 11th February 2010, 02:02 AM

I actually use ffmpeg to downgrade these videos all the time. The downgraded video plays fine everywhere including my iPod.

Here is the output from ffmpeg:
Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 119.88 (120000/1001) -> 59.94 (60000/1001)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '20100206_221612_laugh.mp4':
Duration: 00:01:03.27, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 24180 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 24015 kb/s, 59.94 tbr, 60k tbn, 119.88 tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 127 kb/s
Metadata
major_brand : mp42
minor_version : 1
compatible_brands: mp42avc1
comment : SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA FH1
comment-eng : SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA FH1

**AdamW** · #6 11th February 2010, 07:53 PM

what about the mplayer output?

RobinQi · #7 12th February 2010, 02:16 PM

Sorry, I didn't have mplayer installed. Here it is:
MPlayer SVN-r30417-snapshot-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel max cpuid level: 13
CPU: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 10)
extended cpuid-level: 8
extended cache-info: 134242368
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNowExt: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 SSSE3: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/libinqi/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading /home/libinqi/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/libinqi/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
Configuration: --extra-cflags=-I/usr/include/directfb --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --confdir=/etc/mplayer --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-lirc --enable-joystick --enable-radio --enable-radio-capture --enable-tv-v4l1 --enable-tv-v4l2 --enable-menu --disable-faad-internal --enable-xmms --disable-liba52-internal --enable-musepack --enable-xvmc --with-xvmclib=XvMCW --enable-xss --enable-fbdev --enable-directfb --enable-runtime-cpudetection --language=all
CommandLine: '-v' '20100124_134148_Recital.mp4'
init_freetype
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
get_path('fonts') -> '/home/libinqi/.mplayer/fonts'
Using nanosleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/libinqi/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/libinqi/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
get_path('20100124_134148_Recital.mp4.conf') -> '/home/libinqi/.mplayer/20100124_134148_Recital.mp4.conf'

Playing 20100124_134148_Recital.mp4.
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/libinqi/.mplayer/sub/'
[file] File size is 568492032 bytes
STREAM: [file] 20100124_134148_Recital.mp4
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
LAVF_check: QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
libavformat file format detected.
==> Found video stream: 0
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
======= VIDEO Format ======
biSize 83
biWidth 1920
biHeight 1080
biPlanes 0
biBitCount 24
biCompression 875967048='H264'
biSizeImage 6220800
Unknown extra header dump: [1] [64] [0] [2a] [ff] [e1] [0] [1c] [67] [64] [0] [2a] [ad] [0] [24] [8c] [7] [80] [22] [7e] [5c] [5] [b2] [0] [0] [7] [d2] [0] [3] [a9] [81] [8] [0] [0] [0] [0] [1] [0] [4] [68] [ce] [38] [b0]
===========================
==> Found audio stream: 1
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 20557 (0x504D)
Channels: 2
Samplerate: 48000
avg byte/sec: 15923
Block align: 1
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 2
Unknown extra header dump: [11] [90]
================================================== ========================
LAVF: 1 audio and 1 video streams found
LAVF: build 3419904
VIDEO: [H264] 1920x1080 24bpp 59.940 fps 24015.6 kbps (2931.6 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:44 fourcc:0x34363248 size:1920x1080 fps:59.940 ftime:=0.0167
Clip info:
major_brand: mp42
minor_version: 1
compatible_brands: mp42avc1
comment: SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA FH1
comment-eng: SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA FH1
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/libinqi/.mplayer/sub/'
X11 opening display: localhost:10.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display "localhost:10.0".
vo: X11 color mask: FFFFFF (R:FF0000 G:FF00 B:FF)
vo: X11 running at 4000x1600 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":10.0" => remote display)
[x11] Detected wm supports NetWM.
[x11] Detected wm supports FULLSCREEN state.
[x11] Current fstype setting honours FULLSCREEN X atoms
[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)!
vidixlib: PROBING: cyberblade
[cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: mach64
[mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: mga
[mga] probe
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: mga_crtc2
[mga] probe
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: nvidia
[nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: pm3
[pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: radeon
[radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: rage128
[rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: s3
[s3_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: sis
[SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: PROBING: unichrome
[unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vidixlib: No suitable driver can be found.
[VO_SUB_VIDIX] Couldn't find working VIDIX driver.
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
INFO: libavcodec init OK!
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
dec_audio: Allocating 6144 bytes for input buffer.
dec_audio: Allocating 65536 + 65536 = 131072 bytes for output buffer.
FAAD: Decoder init done (0Bytes)!
FAAD: Negotiated samplerate: 48000Hz channels: 2
FAAD: got 127kbit/s bitrate from MP4 header!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 127.4 kbit/8.29% (ratio: 15923->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
================================================== ========================
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
[libaf] Adding filter dummy
[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le
[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le
Trying preferred audio driver 'pulse', options '[none]'
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
AO: Description: PulseAudio audio output
AO: Author: Lennart Poettering
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le
[dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le
Starting playback...
Increasing filtered audio buffer size from 0 to 50048
[h264 @ 0xe3d1a0]AVC: Consumed only 24 bytes instead of 28
[ffmpeg] aspect_ratio: 1.777778
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Trying filter chain: vo
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO Config (1920x1080->1920x1080,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659)
VO: [x11] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12
VO: Description: X11 ( XImage/Shm )
VO: Author: Aaron Holtzman <aholtzma@ess.engr.uvic.ca>
Shared memory not supported
Reverting to normal Xlib
[swscaler @ 0xf29420]using unscaled yuv420p -> bgra special converter
*** [vo] Exporting mp_image_t, 1920x1080x12bpp YUV planar, 3110400 bytes
Unicode font: 5025 glyphs.
Unicode font: 5025 glyphs.

**AdamW** · #8 12th February 2010, 11:35 PM

Were you running that from a remote system? There's some rather odd messages in there.

RobinQi · #9 13th February 2010, 05:16 AM

^_^ You are good. I logged into my home PC from my office.

Anyway, mplayer seems to the only one that plays the video ok. Thanks for the advice! Playing these video is the only thing I couldn't do on my f12 and had to have a windows machine ready, now finally don't have to turn on my Windows 7 PC now. I am not going to miss it.