Re: FLV Problem

[Jens Oliver John <jens.o.john@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 07:42:03PM +0000, Nigel Verity wrote:
> attempts to play FLV files now fail. With VLC the error message describes the
> codec as undefined, Mplayer simply does nothing.

Did you run mplayer directly on the file in the terminal? mplayer is IMO one of the most
verbose players and will by default not only output what codec it is attempting
to play a stream from a file with, but also where it comes from, and if an error occurs,
even specific error messages.

Try running

mplayer -v $flashfile

for maximum verbosity, and you will see detailed output on codecs and libraries
used, and see eventually error messages on what does fail when --- example snippet for some
random file from me:

=============================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 55.45.102 (internal)
Configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc
INFO: libavcodec init OK!
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
=============================================================

with which tracking down the issue will certainly be easy, rather than
messing with supposedly broken package combinations.

Best regards,
Jens.