I have a problem using CowLog with MPLayer on Kubuntu 9.10. I have installed the .deb package. After starting CowLog and choosing "File > Open Video" the "Open videofile" window is able to open MPlayer from which I can start playing the video, but the "Open videofile" window freezes. When I try closing it, I receive the error message "Open videofile is not responding." and "Force Quit" results in closing CowLog. Starting CowLog from Terminal returns the same result with the Terminal below. A s a novice to Linux, I am not sure if it is a CowLog or an MPlayer error, or just some configuration problem.

Bests, Janos

jkis@jkis_laptop:~$ CowLog
/home/jkis/trials/MVI_1120.AVI
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.
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] This driver only supports the 3Dfx Banshee, Voodoo3 and Voodoo 5.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
[pulse] working around probably broken pause functionality,
see http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/440
MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing /home/jkis/trials/MVI_1120.AVI.

AVI file format detected.

[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0

[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1

VIDEO: [MJPG] 640×480 24bpp 30.000 fps 12608.8 kbps (1539.2 kbyte/s)

Clip info:

Digitization Time: Sat Aug 8 16:17:45 2009

Software: CanonMVI06

==========================================================================

Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family

Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG)

==========================================================================

==========================================================================

Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder

AUDIO: 11024 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 88.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 11024->11024)

Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)

==========================================================================

AO: [pulse] 11024Hz 1ch u8 (1 bytes per sample)

Starting playback…

VDec: vo config request – 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)

Could not find matching colorspace – retrying with -vf scale…

Opening video filter: [scale]

VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)

Movie-Aspect is undefined – no prescaling applied.

SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4

SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4

SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1

SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8

[swscaler @ 0x846240]BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2

[swscaler @ 0x846240]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling

[swscaler @ 0x846240]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling

[swscaler @ 0x846240]using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 like)

[swscaler @ 0x846240]640×480 -> 640×480

VO: [xv] 640×480 => 640×480 Planar YV12

Failed to get value of property 'length'.
Killed
jkis@jkis_laptop:~$

MPlayer interrupted by signal 13 in module: key_events
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
jkis@jkis_laptop:~$