[MPlayer-users] How to identify missing video-codec?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 18 April 2006 at 16:38, Bernt Christandl wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> i'm using mplayer since years and from time to time i've upgraded
> the version and the codecs up to now "...pre4" (or "pre7" my laptop)
> Nevertheless i'm only an unexperienced user.
> 
> These days i see more and more *.mov cinema-trailers that do not
> work with my "incarnation" of mplayer, e.g. from
> 
> http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/2610/basic-instinct-neues-spiel-fuer-cath
> erine-tramell.html
> 
> i can download and play the "left" trailers (in german) with the date from 
> 20. Feb 2006, but not the "right" ones (with the date from 9. Feb 2006)
> When i try one of those mplayer starts (see below) complaining
> that it can't find a useful video-codec, but it does find a useful
> audio-codec...
> 
> My question is now: how can i find out which video-codec is missing
> and even more, whether this missing codec is available for linux and
> mplayer? (Isn't quicktime quicktime? Are there {many???} versions?)

pre4 didn't support MPEG4 AVC/H264. Upgrade to at least pre7 and remove
any codecs.conf files just to be safe.

Regards,
R.

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