Error when previewing

[ryankop]

I'm trying to convert a mkv file to an avi divx. So I drop the mkv file in, go to the filtes pane and load the subs. Then I press preview, Mplayer appears, I hear sound but I see no video or even play window. Then I force quit it and ffmpegx gives me this error:

/Users/Ryankop/.spumux/Arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring.  Cannot load font: /Users/Ryankop/.spumux/Arial.ttf  [mkv] Unknown/unsupported CodecIC (V_MPEG4/ISO/ASP) or missing/bad CodecPrivate data (track 1).


MPlayer interupted by signal 15 in module: play_audio

Can anyone make sense out of that?

[Case]

You should exit mplayer with the Return or Escape key.

[ryankop]

Doesn't exactly solve my question. Won't it also be impossible to encode with subtitles if mplayer can't view it? I tried it in regular mplayer too and it only shows the audio but no video. For some reason VLC can view it. Help?

[ryankop]

bump

[Case]

In VLC, with this movie open, get Information from the Window menu. Under Advanced Information, look what it says under Stream 0 and Stream 1 ("open" the triangles). All of that could be useful, but most interesting is the Codec of the video stream.

[ryankop]

The codecs are:

mp4v and vorb

[Case]

ISO MPEG-4 video with Ogg Vorbis audio. Nothing extraordinary about that for MKV, as far as I can tell. Weird that mplayer doesn't handle it.

[ryankop]

Any reason why it doesn't encode to any format of avi properly either?