[MPlayer-users] Another duff MXF file?

[Mark Himsley]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:38:02AM +0000, Mark Himsley wrote:
>   
>> Rhozet's Carbon Coder, so to others it looks like mplayer and mencoder 
>> is broken rather than the other software is copeing with broken MXF.
>>
>> The broken-ness of the MXF is just a guess on my behalf, I really 
>> haven't got my head around the output of mxfdump to work out how I'm 
>> supposed to match it against the specs in the big MXF book.
>>     
>
> This actually has nothing at all to do with MXF, the MPEG2 stream just
> contains a sequence header every frame which completely confuses the
> default (libmpeg2) decoder.
> Use -vc ffmpeg12
>   

Blinding!
Thanks Raimar - that's a great tip.

That gets this little project back on track ;-)

-- 
Mark