Bug#738278: mplayer: no sound - Sample format big-endian MPEG-2 not yet supported

Sun Feb 9 00:28:15 UTC 2014

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2
Followup-For: Bug #738278

Dear Maintainer,

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Further to the previous report, I was able to run:

$ mplayer -dumpaudio *.trp
MPlayer svn r34540 (Debian), built with gcc-4.7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
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.

Playing PGR_6.trp.
fopen Vobsub file failed: No such file or directory
libavformat version 53.21.1 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.19.0
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=4097) AUDIO MPA(pid=4161) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
dump: 25945200 bytes written (~99.5%)
TS_PARSE: COULDN'T SYNC
dump: 26085600 bytes written to 'stream.dump'.

and then play the audio:

$ mplayer stream.dump
MPlayer svn r34540 (Debian), built with gcc-4.7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
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.

Playing stream.dump.
libavformat version 53.21.1 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.19.0
libavformat file format detected.
[aac @ 0x30ff8f2440]channel element 2.0 is not allocated
[aac @ 0x30b74f5860]max_analyze_duration reached
[aac @ 0x30b74f5860]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[lavf] stream 0: audio (aac), -aid 0
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
libavcodec version 53.35.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.32.2
[aac @ 0x30ff8f2440]channel element 2.0 is not allocated
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 184.5 kbit/12.01% (ratio: 23062->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
  =====  PAUSE  =====
A: 322.6 (05:22.5) of 1131.1 (18:51.0)  0.4%              

this suggests that mplayer *is* fully capable of handling the format, but
is having trouble correctly recognising it.

I am happy to run further tests or supply part of the file in question.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14.0-rc1+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  libaa1                    1.4p5-41
ii  libasound2                1.0.27.2-3
ii  libavcodec53              6:0.8.10-1
ii  libavformat53             6:0.8.10-1
ii  libavutil51               6:0.8.10-1
ii  libbluray1                1:0.4.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.17-97
ii  libcaca0                  0.99.beta18-1.1
ii  libcdparanoia0            3.10.2+debian-11
ii  libdca0                   0.0.5-6
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9         1.2.10.0-5
ii  libdvdnav4                4.2.1-2
ii  libdvdread4               4.2.1-2
ii  libenca0                  1.15-2
ii  libesd0                   0.2.41-11
ii  libfaad2                  2.7-8
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-2
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-1
ii  libfribidi0               0.19.6-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9-20140122-1
ii  libgif4                   4.1.6-11
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.0.2-1
ii  libjack0 [libjack-0.116]  1:0.124.1+20140122git5013bed0-2
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-2
ii  liblircclient0            0.9.0~pre1-1
ii  liblzo2-2                 2.06-1.2
ii  libmp3lame0               1:3.99.5-dmo1
ii  libmpeg2-4                0.5.1-5
ii  libncurses5               5.9+20140118-1
ii  libogg0                   1.3.1-1
ii  libopenal1                1:1.14-4
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.50-1
ii  libpostproc52             7:1.0-dmo2
ii  libpulse0                 4.0-6+b1
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.15-8
ii  libsmbclient              2:4.1.4+dfsg-3
ii  libspeex1                 1.2~rc1.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9-20140122-1
ii  libsvga1                  1:1.4.3-33
ii  libswscale2               6:9.11-1
ii  libtheora0                1.1.1+dfsg.1-3.1
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140118-1
ii  libvdpau1                 0.7-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-1
ii  libx264-123               2:0.123.2189+git35cf912-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxinerama1              2:1.1.3-1
ii  libxv1                    2:1.0.10-1
ii  libxvidcore4              2:1.3.2-9
ii  libxvmc1                  2:1.0.8-1
ii  libxxf86dga1              2:1.1.4-1
ii  libxxf86vm1               1:1.1.3-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2                              1.0.6-5
ii  fontconfig                         2.11.0-2
ii  fonts-freefont-ttf [ttf-freefont]  20120503-4
ii  mplayer-doc                        2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1
pn  netselect | fping                  <none>

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