[MPlayer-users] MPlayer -identify question

[Thomas Sattler]

> Also the media length value that is returned by Ogg Theora
> video files is very wrong.

mplayer seems also to fail when asked for mpeg2 playback-
length. Last version on gentoo that returned good guesses
was media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1-r2. Newer versions miss
correct length by seconds, sometimes minutes or even hours.

I reported that to gentoo bugs (1) last year, they closed
it as UPSTREAM and suggested trying svn until it is fixed.

1) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178307

I kept an old mplayer binary for identifying length of
mpeg2 movies, used up2date ones for playback and forgot
the whole thing. As I read this thread I remembered and
decided to join.

I can still offer samples mplayer fails to detect correct
playback length:


"sample1.mpeg2" (~24mb)
0:00:59  <-- (MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team)
0:00:57  <-- (MPlayer SVN-r26154-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team)
0:00:59  <-- "time ~/svn/mplayer/mplayer sample1.mpeg2"


"sample2.mpeg2" (~34mb)
0:01:36  <-- (MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team)
0:02:15  <-- (MPlayer SVN-r26154-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team)
0:01:36  <-- "time ~/svn/mplayer/mplayer sample2.mpeg2"


Thomas

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