[MPlayer-users] mpeg-header in mov file ?

[Artur Zaprzala]

Sascha Sommer wrote:

>I have got a Quicktime mov file. It's playable with other players but
>mplayer doesn't detect it as mov.
>Instead it quits with appended error.
>If I cut the first 75 Megs they play perfectly. Maybe you could make an
>option to select input file format
>by commandline (mov,avi,etc.) or you can make it possible that mplayer
>continues with input file format detection if it gets this error.
>Sorry, I can't upload the whole movie because it would take some weeks with
>my 56k connection :(
>
>By the way is it planned to support uncompressed RGB avis ?
>S.Sommer
>

The solution for MPlayer is to detect mov format BEFORE mpeg. mpeg 
detection code does lots of noise and tries to scan the whole file.