On2 VP6 video not reproduced (only audio)

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Hi,
i have a problem with gnome-mplayer (and the related mozilla plugin 
gecko-mediaplayer). With some video files, the video track is not played. In 
particular these video are coded with On2 VP6 codec.

I have all gstreamer-plugins installed and various xine libs. So, why not read 
these video???

The same files are played without problems with vlc or totem.

Greetings.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by valerio...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2010 at 9:11

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I forgot to say that I use Fedora 13 64bit.

Original comment by valerio...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2010 at 9:13

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gnome-mplayer uses mplayer for video playback, so gstreamer and xine do not 
affect this one bit. You might need the extra codecs from here:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs

According to this page, the codec should be supported 
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html

A sample video that does not work would be helpful for me to debug this.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2010 at 1:55

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I downloaded the codec and putted it in /usr/lib64/codecs, that was empty, but 
nothing changed.

I have a little flv example (3.8MB) that have this problem with mplayer. I 
tried to attach it but show "Project attachment quota exceeded." even if the 
limit is 10.0MB. If i open this files, with gnome-mplayer, the interface shows 
a black square for a moment and after it shrinks and the video track is not 
visualized. With others player there aren't problems.

Another example is this: http://vimeo.com/2119639 , that will not start even (i 
use a script to substitute flash player with gecko-mediaplayer, but also if i 
download the flv i have the same problem with gnome-mplayer. With totem and 
totem-mozplugin works well).

I tried to change video ouput with all the possible selection but not work. 
With other type of video mplayer work good (flv coded with sorenson codec, 
h264, divx, eccecc).

Original comment by valerio...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2010 at 2:47

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the On2 codecs are only available to the 32bit version of mplayer. Since the 
On2 codecs have not been released in 64bit code. 

I think you should try and play this file with only mplayer and if it plays 
there, but not in gnome-mplayer then reopen this issue. The issue at this point 
appears to be with mplayer and not gnome-mplayer.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2010 at 2:57

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i tried to open the file with mplayer namefile.flv and this is the last line:

Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x34564C46.

So it's an mplayer codec problem.

Original comment by valerio...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2010 at 3:23