[MPlayer-users] Old divx files break, MOV to MP4 problem

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 20 August 2002 18:26, Casey King wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
[...]
> I've seen a couple of problems with MPlayer0.90pre6.
>
> 1. Some old opendivx bitstreams (made with flask long ago) don't play
> correctly anymore. These have always played fine (with both opendivx and
> ffmpeg) up through at least Mplayer0.90pre4. An example of what gets dumped
> out is:
[...]
> scalability not supported
-lavdopts bug=1
the problem is that opendivx set the scalabilty bit incorectly in the header, 
older ffmpeg did not support parsing of the scalability header stuff so it 
was just ignored, but current versions try to parse it, which fails as the 
scalability header part is not there

[...]

Michael