[MPlayer-users] playing quicktime with mplayer (animatrix)

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Akos Maroy wrote:

>mplayer? In particular I'd like to play the animatrix movies found at
>MOV: WARNING: Variable FOURCC detected!?

This is the problem. And the topic has been already discussed here to the
death, i thought somebody was already making a FAQ of this? Anyway, here's
my mini-FAQ:

Q: Animatrix 1 doesn't work. What to do?
A: Get patch from
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/mplayer/MPlayer-0.90rc2.varfourcc.patch
Apply it, recompile. (Patch was made by A'rpi IIRC and posted on this list)

Q: Animatrix 2 sound doesn't work. What to do?
A: You have to first extract the audio into separate file:
   mplayer -dumpaudio animatrix2.mov
then decode it
   faad stream.dump stream.wav
and then play the video using the separately decoded audio
   mplayer -audiofile stream.wav animatrix2.mov

The audio sync won't be perfect in either case.