[MPlayer-users] iMovie-created .MOV file exits early

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

Interesting.... I can convert my .mov to .avi fine - but only the amount 
that I can play. i.e. mplayer and mencoder are reading it exactly the same 
way. This is the way that I'm encoding my .mov to .avi:

 mencoder CastleWinchesterWalkthrough.mov -divx4opts br=1200:key=250:q=5 
-o CastleWinchesterWalkthrough.avi -ovc divx4 -oac mp3lame -lameopts 
br=192:cbr

	It just makes a perfectly good, short, playable .avi

	-Josiah



On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Stefan Recksiegel wrote:

[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
Hi,

> 	I'm having a strange problem with an iMovie-created MPEG4 file 
> exiting early. It plays file with Apple's Quicktime player, but I'd really 
> like to make it into a DivX as it's rather big at the moment (220MB for 15 
> minutes of video). However, it exits after about 179.2 seconds, and so 

> there is any problem - it just thinks that it's the end of the file. Has 
> anybody ever run into this before? 

I have exactly the same problem with a couple of MOVs, but they play
a lot longer, about one hour before exitig with 'end of file'.
(And that is not the real end of the file, checked with a MAC.)

There seems to be a program for MACs that converts AVIs to MOVs. I
tried to reverse this with mplayer, but it reports an error writing the
output file (!). Any idea, anybody ?

Stefan

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Trying to convert the file to avi:

sr at srserv:~/movies > mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o 13thFloor.avi 13thFloor.mov 


MEncoder 0.90pre7-2.95.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron SF Spitfire (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Reading /home/sr/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 107 video codecs
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Font /home/sr/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x12D7E592
Detected QuickTime/MOV file format!
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MOV track #0: 144551 chunks, 144551 samples
Image size: 512 x 240 (0 bpp)
Display size: 512 x 240
Fourcc: DIV3  Codec: ''
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MOV track #1: 11408 chunks, 251157 samples
Audio bits: 16  chans: 2  rate: 48000
Fourcc: .mp3
--------------
[V] filefmt:7  fourcc:0x33564944  size:512x240  fps:23.81  ftime:=0.0420
videocodec: framecopy (512x240 0bpp fourcc=33564944)
audiocodec: framecopy (format=0 chans=2 rate=48000 bits=16 bps=192000 sample=0)
Writing AVI header...
Pos:   0.9s     22f ( 0%)   1fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.088 [0:0]
skip frame!!!    
Pos:   1.3s     32f ( 0%)   1fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.087 [15:0]
skip frame!!!    
Pos:   1.7s     42f ( 0%)   1fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.087 [14:0]
skip frame!!!    
Pos:   2.1s     52f ( 0%)   2fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.087 [13:0]
skip frame!!!    
Pos:   2.4s     62f ( 0%)   2fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.086 [18:0]
...
Pos:3254.8s  86704f ( 0%) 608fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.088 [310:0]
skip frame!!!    
Pos:3255.1s  86714f ( 0%) 608fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.087 [310:0]
skip frame!!!    
Pos:3255.5s  86724f ( 0%) 608fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.087 [310:0]
skip frame!!!    
Pos:3255.8s  86731f ( 0%) 608fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.074 [310:0]
Writing AVI index...
Fixup AVI header...
13thFloor.avi: error writing file.
Exiting...

The resulting file has 80377556 bytes and mplayer crashes with
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open 
when trying to play it. I can upload the file somewhere if
somebody is interested.

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When I play the file, I get:

MPlayer 0.90pre7-2.95.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron SF Spitfire (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

Reading /home/sr/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 107 video codecs
Font /home/sr/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Linux RTC init error: No such device
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/sr/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Setting up lirc support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Connection refused
Failed opening lirc support!
You won't be able to use your remote control

Playing 13thFloor.mov
Detected QuickTime/MOV file format!
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MOV track #0: 144551 chunks, 144551 samples
Image size: 512 x 240 (0 bpp)
Display size: 512 x 240
Fourcc: DIV3  Codec: ''
--------------
MOV track #1: 11408 chunks, 251157 samples
Audio bits: 16  chans: 2  rate: 48000
Fourcc: .mp3
--------------
==========================================================================
Detected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, sfmt: 0x10 (2 bps), ratio: 12000->192000 (96.0 kbit)
vo: X11 running at 640x480 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Detected video codec: [ffdivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
Start playing...
VDec: vo config request - 512 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 512x240 => 512x240 Planar YV12  [fs]
A:3783.8 V:3783.8 A-V:  0.036 ct:  0.004  283/283   0%  0%  0.0% 0 0 0%

Exiting... (End of file)

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Stefan