[MPlayer-users] AniMatrix

[Olivier Galibert]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:04:12AM -0000, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> To shed even some more light on the problem, this is the movie type
> reported by the Windows Quicktime player:
> 
> format: 	Photo - JPEG, 640 x 272, Millions
> 		QDesign Music 2, Stereo, 44.1 Khz, 16 bits
> 		QDesign Music 2, Stereo, 44.1 Khz, 16 bits
> 
> Movie FPS:	23.99
> Data Size:	141,2 Mb
> Data Rate:	260,4 Kb/sec
> 
> 
> Although this might be irrelevant to us Linux users, it explains why
> mplayer cannot play this file without the mentioned patch.
> 
> It is really stupid, it's like they took each frame of the anime, 
> scanned it to JPEG files and cat them to a MOV container...

Not exactly.  The start is mjpeg, then after a small amount of time
it's sorenson (iirc).  Hence the audio desync if you just skip the
mjpeg.

I'm not convinced the current mplayer structure would take enjoy
changing codecs on the fly much.

  OG.