I downloaded this doom trailer (http://www.doommovie.com/media/doom_trlr5_700k.mov) and find out that neither mplayer nor totem can open it. Here is what mplayer's output syncat@tux ~/download/video $ mplayer doom_trlr5_700k.mov MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes MMX2 supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE SSE2 85 audio & 196 video codecs Playing doom_trlr5_700k.mov. QuickTime/MOV file format detected. -------------- MOV track #0: 467 chunks, 3501 samples MOV: Found unknown movie atom SMI (21)! Image size: 480 x 270 (24 bpp) Display size: 480 x 270 Fourcc: SVQ3 Codec: 'Sorenson Video 3' -------------- MOV track #1: 565 chunks, 5030 samples Audio bits: 16 chans: 2 rate: 44100 Audio extra header: len=109 fcc=0x77617665 MOV: Found MPEG4 audio Elementary Stream Descriptor atom (57)! Fourcc: mp4a -------------- MOV: longest streams: A: #1 (5030 samples) V: #0 (3501 samples) VIDEO: [SVQ3] 480x270 24bpp 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6134706D. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ========================================================================== vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffsvq3] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg Sorenson Video v3 (SVQ3)) ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 480 x 270 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [xv] 480x270 => 480x270 Planar YV12 V: 1.1 35/ 35 33% 0% 0.0% 0 0 96% V: 116.8 3501/3501 8% 0% 0.0% 0 0 0% Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download movie http://www.doommovie.com/media/doom_trlr5_700k.mov 2. open this movie with mplayer Actual Results: audio codec is missing Expected Results: Ability to hear audio Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -pipe -mfpmath=sse -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -pipe -mfpmath=sse -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/Gentoo/ ftp://ftp.linux.org.ua/pub/Linux/Gentoo/ " LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.linux.kiev.ua/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib cairo cdb cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope cups curl curlwrappers custom-cflags dbm dbus dio directfb divx4linux dvd dvdread eds emboss encode evolution examples extensions extras fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardenedphp hsql hsqldb i8x0 icc icc-pgo iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib iodbc ithreads jabber jack java javamail jce jdbc jikes jpeg jpeg2k junit koi8-r ladspa ldap libcaca libedit libg++ libwww live mad maildir mbox memlimit mikmod mime ming mmx mmx2 mono mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg msession msql mysql mysqli nas ncurses network nls nntp nptl nptlonly ntp nvidia odbc ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openldap osd oss pam pdflib perl pgo php png portaudio postgres ppds python quicktime readline real recode samba sasl sdl session shared sharedmem silc slang slp smp sndfile snmp sockets socks5 soundtouch spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora threads tidy tiff timidity tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf utf8 vhosts vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x86 xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xsl xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Did you try with the aac USE flag? look at this line: Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available. That's probably the problem.
See comment #1.
