[Ffmpeg-devel] MPEG-1 Decoder

[Nico Sabbi]

Matthew Gertner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're using libavcodec and libavformat in our project to decode 
> various audio/video formats. I understand that MPEG-1 is supported, 
> but just came across a video file that the libraries were unable to 
> interpret. The libavcodec reports a single audio stream in the file 
> and no video stream. I verified the format using GSpot, and it is 
> indeed MPEG-1 though I suppose there are many internal variations to 
> the format (I'm far from an expert on this). I can open and play the 
> file using VirtualDub and MPlayer, so it definitely is a valid video 
> file. I know that MPlayer uses libmpeg2 as well as libav*, so based on 
> this and some vague hints I found, I am speculating that there are 
> some issues with decoding MPEG-1 using libav*. But I wasn't able to 
> find any definitive confirmation of this.
>
> Can someone help me out? Are there indeed limitations to MPEG-1 
> support, or am I doing something wrong (wrong configuration flags or 
> something). In the former case, are there plans to address these 
> limitations? Is there some timeline? Or should we plan to use libmpeg2 
> as well?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Matt
>

your problem seems to be due to the mpeg demuxer in libavformat, not 
from the decoder in libavcodec.
Many times I experienced the same issue, i.e. when reading raw vcd images.
To verify it, run
$ mplayer -vc ffmpeg12 file.mpg
 
 
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