[MPlayer-users] constant samplesize & variable duration not yet supported!

[Philip Walden]

Iwas trying to watch a PBS Nova show in quicktime and got the following 
error that says "constant samplesize & variable duration not yet 
supported! Contact the author if you have such sample file!". Well here 
is the sample:


$ mplayer http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/eu.mov
MPlayer 1.0pre4-RPM-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
 
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon K75 Pluto,Orion 856.2 MHz (Family: 6, 
Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx
 
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/pwalden/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/pwalden/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open 
'/home/pwalden/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/pwalden/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system 
startup
scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/pwalden/.mplayer/input.conf: No such 
file or
directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
 
Playing http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/eu.mov.
Resolving www.pbs.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.pbs.org[149.48.192.121]:80 ...
Cache size set to 8192 KBytes
Connected to server: www.pbs.org
Cache fill:  1.27% (106370 bytes)    QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
Compressed header uses zlib algo!
Compressed header size: 5428 / 43480
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MOV track #0: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completly understood! (id: 0)
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MOV track #1: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completly understood! (id: 1)
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MOV track #2: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completly understood! (id: 2)
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MOV track #3: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completly understood! (id: 3)
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MOV track #4: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completly understood! (id: 4)
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MOV track #5: 1 chunks, 0 samples
MOV: Found unknown movie atom ?Allocated 256 entries for palette
Loading palette from file
Image size: 452 x 21 (8 bpp)
Display size: 452 x 21
Fourcc: gif   Codec: 'GIF'
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MOV track #6: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completly understood! (id: 6)
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MOV track #7: 0 chunks, 0 samples
*** constant samplesize & variable duration not yet supported! ***
Contact the author if you have such sample file!
Generic track - not completly understood! (id: 7)
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MOV: longest streams: A: #-1 (0 samples)  V: #5 (1 samples)
Clip info:
 copyright: ? 2003 WGBH Educational Foundation
 encoder: Made with LiveStage Pro
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local 
display)
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Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x20666967.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
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Exiting... (End of file)