[MPlayer-users] Not able to play video file in mplayer (xine plays it fine)

[The Wanderer]

Francisco wrote:

> Hi, I'm having this problem, there is a video file I want to
> transcode with mencoder but I'm not able to play it, I guess it
> should be possible to do, since xine plays the file fine. I attach
> some info of the tests I did, I tried a lot of things buf couldn't
> solve it. I would really help any help you can provide.
> Thanks
> 
> Francisco
> 
> 
> In xine I get the following info while playing the video:
> Codec: TechSmith Video (ffmpeg)
> FourCC: tscc
> 
> midentify says:
> 
> ID_VIDEO_ID=0
> ID_AUDIO_ID=1
> ID_FILENAME="video.mov"
> ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=SVQ3
> ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
> ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1024
> ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=768
> ID_VIDEO_FPS=15.000
> ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
> ID_AUDIO_CODEC=pcm
> ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=sowt
> ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=352800
> ID_AUDIO_RATE=22050
> ID_AUDIO_NCH=1
> ID_LENGTH=2743
> 
> If I play the video with mplayer without extra options I get:
> 
> MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team

This is very likely the problem. There have, if I'm not mistaken, been
a nymber of improvements in the MOV demuxer (although it's still far
short of perfection) since 1.0pre7try2; it is very likely that the CVS
version will be able to play/encode your file just fine.

(If it doesn't, then at least you'll be in proper position to send in a
bug report about it.)

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