[MPlayer-users] gif fourcc

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:45:12PM +0200, Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:41:21 -0700 (PDT)
> James Warden <d_werdan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > no, that's not the problem. Whether I have one
> > codecs.conf file or not, it still doesn't work. Other
> > players have the same difficulty (xine, vlc). The
> > movie file is a quicktime/mov . If it can help, here
> > is the mplayer message display :
> > 
> > 
> > Playing Fullfull.mov.
> > Cache fill:  0.02% (1574 bytes)    QuickTime/MOV file
> > format detected.
> > --------------
> > MOV track #0: 1 chunks, 0 samples
> > MOV: Found unknown movie atom Allocated 256 entries
> > for palette
> > Loading palette from file
> > Image size: 2 x 2 (8 bpp)
> > Display size: 2 x 2
> > Fourcc: gif   Codec: 'GIF'
> > --------------
> > MOV: longest streams: A: #-1 (0 samples)  V: #0 (1
> > samples)
> > VIDEO:  [gif ]  2x2  8bpp  15.000 fps    0.0 kbps (
> > 0.0 kbyte/s)
> > vo: X11 running at 1680x1050 with depth 16 and 16 bpp
> > (":0" => local display)
> > ==========================================================================
> > Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video
> > format 0x20666967.
> > Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
> 
> Gif is only supported as stand-alone format (animated gif)
> Anyway i think tis file is either a reference file or very broke, a 2x2
> picture is sure too small to be useful.

mov has idiotic image 'tracks' misidentified as video because the
format sucks. try selecting a different track with -vid #

rich