[MPlayer-dev-eng] QuickTime reference file support?
Fabian Franz
FabianFranz at gmx.de
Sat Jan 11 00:41:18 CET 2003
Am Samstag, 11. Januar 2003 00:02 schrieb Kevin DeKorte:
> I think the correct thing to do when encountering quicktime reference files
> is to get all the referenced files/urls and the play each one of those file
> in order as referenced.
>
> Example:
>
> Ref file contains
> movie1.mov
> movie2.mov
> movie3.mov
>
> mplayer should
>
> open ref file and see that it points to other files and then play
> movie1.mov
> then movie2.mov
> and finally movie3.mov
> then quit
I don't think so ...
see: http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/icefloe/dispatch015.html
For specs about reference movies ...
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/qtdevdocs/QT4WebPage/samplechap/special-11.html
and
http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/datarate4.html
seem also to be interesting ...
If I find the time I'll have a look on it ...
cu
Fabian
>
>
> Kevin
>
> On Friday 10 January 2003 15:51, gabor farkas wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:01:49PM +0100, Anders Rune Jensen wrote:
> > > Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte at yahoo.com> writes:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Is there any progress being made on supporting quicktime reference
> > > > files?
> > > >
> > > > Example:
> > > >
> > > > mplayer
> > > > http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/20b9f288dddd83/1a1a1aaa2198c6279707
> > > >73
> > > > d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177dec6493f758c
> > > >a2f 93f86ed743/daredevil-tlr_320.mov
> > >
> > > there was posted an getMov.pl script that download it (search the
> > > archive). I use it to suck trailers.
> >
> > i think that's not what he mentions...
> >
> > after all, it's not hard to get the right file manually..
> >
> > you start the reference-mov file, and pick the last reference
> > from mplayer's output.
> >
> > but i also think this should be done automatically, or add
> > a -dontfollowreferences parameter to mplayer for not following
> > them automatically, or something like that.
> >
> > gabor
> >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Kevin
> > >
> > > --
> > > Anders Rune Jensen
> > >
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