RMVB files won't play video

[lvella]

When I try to play an RMVB file, I get only audio, no video. The videos are pretty low resolution, so the hardware should be able to handle it, right?

[mk01]

@lvella

just a humble question, what is RMVB file?

[lvella]

RealMedia Variable Bitrate, a proprietary file formart from RealNetworks
popular in countries like China and Brazil. FFmpeg can decode it.
Em 21/11/2013 07:40, "Matus Kral" notifications@github.com escreveu:

@lvella https://github.com/lvella

just a humble question, what is RMVB file?

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[Iri-Dium]

A little searching shows why.

The reason they work on the XBMC is that XBMC for Xbox uses MPlayer for playback of RealMedia RMVB files, (while XBMC for Linux and XBMC for Mac OS X does not use MPlayer but instead XBMC's in-house developed "DVDPlayer" video-player).

...and the reason MPlayer can playback RealMedia RMVB files (and XBMC's in-house developed "DVDPlayer" video-player can not) is that MPlayer can load closed-source binary DLL files that been taken from the proprietary RealPlayer, (while the in-house developed "DVDPlayer" video-player only uses the open source FFmpeg codec library).

[lvella]

That is false, "ffmpeg -i myfile.rmvb" showed:
Stream #0.1: Video: rv40, yuv420p, 576x432, 385 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc

rv40 is the RealVideo codec used in the file, and it has a builtin reverse engineered decoder:

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libavcodec/rv40.c;h=17a2f917286317590e164f3dc4c4c01552c060e7;hb=HEAD

With ffplay I was able to play the video in my Ubuntu box, so there is no Windows DLL involved...

[mk01]

@lvella

can you install standalone omxplayer for instance from this location http://omxplayer.sconde.net and try playing the specific file from command line directly on the RPI ?

[Koenkk]

Closed due to inactivity

[Roxxor91]

Experience the same behaviour and checked as instructed by mk01:

omxplayer output when trying to play the file:

Vcodec id unknown: 46
have a nice day ;)

Codec information given by VLC:
RealVideo 9/10 (4.0) (RV40)

On my Kaptop (Lubuntu 14.04) VLC can play the file correctly aswell as mplayer(Selected video codec: RealVideo 4.0 [libavcodec])

EDIT: Made a bug report onomxplayer github page, as this bug/missing feature is caused by omxplayer: popcornmix/omxplayer#213

[mk01]

@Roxxor91

this will never be "fixed" in the way of adding codec support into omxplayer. omxplayer plays and will play only formats which can be decoded by RPI in HW (and one own license in case it is needed).

cases like you experienced are targeted with RPI/OMX implementation into dvdplayer (standard XBMC player). this also means AE engine active etc.

there is such build in DEVEL repo named xbian-package-xbmc-alsa.

omxplayer is still present and can be changed to default in advancedsettings.xml 

<video>
       <defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
       <defaultdvdplayer>omxplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
</video>