[MPlayer-users] video copied from security camera doesn't playback

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu at realss.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> This clip is copied from security camera monitoring machine. file(1)
> could not determine the file type. The file is possible to playback on
> Windows with 暴风影音, the name of the software is in Chinese but it
> looks to be based on mplayer (the name of the player directly
> translation would be "storm video and audio").
>
> https://emerson.realss.com/~yuliansu/tmp/ch07_20081126070500.mp4
>
> Question:
> Is this an mplayer problem or a broken video format? (all other video
> clips copied from security camera also doesn't play back.

I've never even heard of such a video format.  Odds are its some
random proprietary format that nobody supports.

Furthermore, its not even a valid mp4 file to begin with, at least
according to mp4box.

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