[MPlayer-users] "MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header." when playing EVO files from Transformers HD-DVD

[The Wanderer]

Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:

> On 25/12/2007, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
>> 
>>> If you guys want to have a look at it, I've put one of the
>>> smaller files from HD DVD, the menu looping video, on rapidshare
>>> for you to download and examine.  The bigger files, including
>>> trailers, almost all behave the same, giving EOF errors.
>>> 
>>> http://rapidshare.com/files/78968776/MENULOOP.EVO.html
>> 
>> It's not a violation of the mailing-list rules to post it, but none
>> of the developers are going to look at it if they have to get it
>> from a site like rapidshare. If you want it to be publicly
>> accessible, put it somewhere where it can be downloaded via a
>> direct URL (e.g. with a command line like 'wget
>> http://server.domain.tld/path/to/filename'); if you want the
>> developers to look at it, upload it to
>> 'upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming' via FTP.
> 
> Ah, ok.  rapidshare doesn't do direct links, and has waiting periods.
> I didn't know where to put it, thanks for the heads up.
> 
> I uploaded it to:
> 
> ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/transformers-hd-menuloop-19:34.evo

Just a note, in case you were not aware: standard practice, as requested
by the bug-reporting guidelines, is to also upload a text file with a
matching name which contains a description of the problem. Without that,
you risk someone looking at the file, not being able to figure out what
was wrong with it, and putting it up as a candidate for deletion without
knowing that the problem has not been fixed.

> I have no idea what download location that maps to, but you guys
> should know.

Actually, it maps to exactly the same location; however, only
non-anonymous users are allowed to download from there. (IIRC, I no
longer have a non-anonymous account, as I'm no longer even a courtesy
developer.)

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       The Wanderer

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side of it.

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