Fedora Core 6: mplayer a HD-file

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Oct 26 19:49:07 UTC 2007


Andrew Junev wrote:
> Friday, October 26, 2007, 9:02:41 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Your problem is this:
> 
>>> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> 
>> Probably related to this:
> 
>>> VIDEO:  MPEG2  1920x1080  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  17500.0 kbps (2187.5 kbyte/s)
> 
>> Does your monitor support 1920x1080 resolution?
> 
> My current monitor only supports 1280x720. So you're saying it's only
> a resolution problem? It would be just great then! :)
> 
> I'm in progress of upgrading my PC with an nVidia 8600GT (featuring
> DVI and HDCP). Then I'll use HDMI input on my SONY TV to get the real
> 1920x1080.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

You could try different video output options (see man mplayer) and see 
if you can watch it.  You could also try the scaling options to 
downscale the video to fit your resolution.

mplayer is so powerful, I wish it was the default multimedia player in 
Fedora.


-- 
Robin Laing




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