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List:       xine-user
Subject:    Re: [xine-user] Flash Video support
From:       James Courtier-Dutton <James () superbug ! co ! uk>
Date:       2006-09-16 8:26:43
Message-ID: 450BB543.8000604 () superbug ! co ! uk
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Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Hi all... It's been quite a long time since I last subscribed to the
> list, I
> did a quick search by the Archives, but I could not find verbose
> information
> on my inquiry.
> 
> First of all, I'm currently having a bit of problems with Flash Video
> support in Xine, while it does playback .flv files just fine, these
> files do
> not have sound. I'm currently under Fedora Core 5 x86_64 using the latest
> Xine from bordeux.freshrpms.net (I have noted a few issues with the 64-bit
> build, but that's for another topic/thread). I have also tried building my
> own Xine using the latest sources, but I'm not able to see any substantial
> difference between my builds and those from freshrpms, so I'm sticking with
> those.
> 
>> From what I have been able to see, .flv files are decoded (at least the
> video part) with ffmpeg. From what I can gather with another media player
> (VLC in this case), the audio format of many of the great majority of these
> files (the ones I've got, anyway), is mp3, and xine DOES do mp3
> decoding, so
> I'm rather intrigued as why flv videos do not have any sound in Xine...
> 
> Any timeframe as to when could we expect this to be available?
> 
> This has the disadvantage of being a major drawback for people using the
> Democracy Player on Linux (www.getdemocracy.com), as the Linux version uses
> Xine as the media backend (and Mozilla as the web-backend), but the great
> majority of the videos found in the channles are .flv.
> 
> Thanks a lot for any attention given to this message.
> 
> 

I looked at the xine source code.
This appears to be a .flv demuxer issue. The demuxer extracts video from
the .flv stream, but does not yet implement any recognition of the audio
stream. Someone will have to implement it.

James


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