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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 23:12, Francisco wrote:
> oops, I forgot to say that I got the same problem with mplayer-cvs, I just 
> downgraded to normal mplayer because it was causing some problems with 
> packages dependencies and didn't solve my problem anyway.
> Do you think this is indeed a bug?, should I report it?
> 
> MPlayer dev-CVS-060115-18:55-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Sempron/Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred; Duron Applebred 
> (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compilado para CPU x86 con extensiones: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
> 
> 
> Warning unknown option cache-prefill at line 147
> 
> get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/fran/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
> Leyendo /home/fran/.mplayer/codecs.conf: No puedo abrir 
> '/home/fran/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Leyendo /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 91 codecs de audio & 204 codecs de 
> v�eo
> Linea de Comando: '-v' '-vo' 'xv' 'video.mov'
[...]
> Checking for MOV
> MOV: Movie header found!
> MOV: 'WIDE' chunk found!
> MOV: Movie DATA found!
> Detectado formato de archivo Quicktime/MOV.
> MOV: Movie header (100 bytes): tscale=600  dur=1643840
> --------------
> MOV: Track #0:
> MOV:  Track header!
> tkhd len=84 ver=0 flags=0x0 id=1 dur=1643840 lay=0 vol=0
> MOV:  Edit atom!
> MOV:   Edit list table (1 entries) (ver:0,flags:0)
> MOV:     entry#0: duration: 1643840  start time: 2480  speed: 1.0x
> MOV:  Media stream!
> MOV:   Media header!
> MOV:   Handler header: mhlr/vide (appl) Apple Video Media Handler
> MOV:   Media info!
> MOV:    Video header!
> MOV:    Handler header: dhlr/alis (appl) Apple Alias Data Handler
> MOV: unknown chunk: dinf 28
> MOV:    Sample info!
> MOV:     Description list! (cnt:2)
> MOV:      desc #0: tscc  (122 bytes)
> MOV:      desc #1: SVQ3  (107 bytes)

Here's your culprit. Double desc header. I'm guessing it's partly SVQ3
and partly TSCC.

> MOV: Advertencia. Variable FOURCC detectada!
> MOV:     Sample duration table! (1 blocks)
> MOV:     Syncing samples (keyframes) table! (523 entries) (ver:0,flags:0)
> MOV:     Sample->Chunk mapping table!  (6658 blocks) (ver:0,flags:0)
> MOV:     Sample size table! (entries=41158 ss=0) (ver:0,flags:0)
> MOV:     Chunk offset table! (10746 chunks)
> MOV track #0: 10746 chunks, 41158 samples
> pts=1646320  scale=600  time=2743.867
> EL#0: pts=2480  1st_sample=62  frames=41096 (2739.733s)  pts_offs=-2480
> ==> Encontrado stream de v�eo: 0
> MOV: Found unsupported Gamma-Correction movie atom (12)!
> MOV: Found unknown movie atom SMI  (21)!

Probably a playlist.

> Image size: 1024 x 768 (32 bpp)
> Display size: 1024 x 768
> Fourcc: SVQ3  Codec: 'Sorenson Video 3'
> --------------
> MOV: Track #1:
> MOV:  Track header!
> tkhd len=84 ver=0 flags=0x0 id=2 dur=1643840 lay=0 vol=256
> MOV:  Edit atom!
> MOV:   Edit list table (1 entries) (ver:0,flags:0)
> MOV:     entry#0: duration: 1643840  start time: 0  speed: 1.0x
> MOV:  Media stream!
> MOV:   Media header!
> MOV:   Handler header: mhlr/soun (appl) Apple Sound Media Handler
> MOV:   Media info!
> MOV:    Sound header!
> MOV:    Handler header: dhlr/alis (appl) Apple Alias Data Handler
> MOV: unknown chunk: dinf 28
> MOV:    Sample info!
> MOV:     Description list! (cnt:2)
> MOV:      desc #0: sowt  (20 bytes)
> MOV:      desc #1: sowt  (36 bytes)
> MOV:     Sample duration table! (1 blocks)
> MOV:     Sample->Chunk mapping table!  (5 blocks) (ver:0,flags:0)
> MOV:     Sample size table! (entries=60411120 ss=1) (ver:0,flags:0)
> MOV:     Chunk offset table! (5481 chunks)
> MOV track #1: 5481 chunks, 0 samples
> pts=60411120  scale=22050  time=2739.733
> ==> Encontrado stream de audio: 1
> Audio bits: 16  chans: 1  rate: 22050
> Audio header: samp/pack=1 bytes/pack=2 bytes/frame=2 bytes/samp=2
> Fourcc: sowt
> --------------
> Quicktime Clip Info:
> MOV: longest streams: A: #1 (5481 samples)  V: #0 (41158 samples)
> VIDEO:  [SVQ3]  1024x768  32bpp  15.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)

MPlayer tries to play the SVQ3 part and fails.

R.

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