[MPlayer-users] Bug Report: jpeg to avi is broken NOVIRUS

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:00:06PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:48:16PM -0600, Daniel Swan wrote:
> > I've downloaded the latest CVS, and was able to compile it successfully, 
> > but I am still unable to convert my jpgs to avi.    Please advise.
> 
> That is because you have a different problem. MPlayer supports only
> baseline (c0) and lossless huffman (c3) encoding for jpg files, whereas
> yours use progressive huffman (c2). I doubt this will be supported in
> the near future (if at all).
> You can still convert them to a supported format first.

FYI, the jpegtran program (included with libjpeg) should be able to
losslessly convert this silly 'progressive' stuff into baseline jpeg.
Something like:
  jpegtran < badfile.jpg > goodfile.jpg

Rich