[MPlayer-users] mplayer libavformat hang on .m4a file/Fedora 10+rpmfusion

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 28 November 2008 at 12:23, Richard Chan wrote:
> I recently upgraded to Fedora 10 with the corresponding rpms from
> rpmfusion.org
> 
> mplayer-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.x86_64
> ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.fc10.x86_64
> ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.fc10.x86_64
> 
> mplayer hangs on playback of any .m4a file that was created with faac.
> 
> This previously worked under Fedora 9 with rpms from rpm.livna.org.
> The .m4a file is working with vlc, ffplay, rhythmbox.
> 
> mplayer/Fedora 10  works on many other media files such as ogg, mp3, flv.
> 
> 
> Here is the -v output:
> 
> Playing track01.m4a.
> get_path('sub/') -> '/home/richard/.mplayer/sub/'
> [file] File size is 4607093 bytes
> STREAM: [file] track01.m4a
> STREAM: Description: File
> STREAM: Author: Albeu
> STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
> LAVF_check: QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
> libavformat file format detected.
> stream_seek: WARNING! Can't seek to 0x464C75 !
> 
> and it just sits there spinning CPU. Ctrl-C gives
> 
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open
> 
> so it seems to be a hang in the demuxer.
> 
> Any suggestions? Tks.

Try -demuxer mov.

> The .m4a file is too large to post here but if anyone is willing try on
> Fedora 10/rpmfusion
> please shout.

Please upload a short sample to ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/
along with a similarly named .txt file describing the problem.

Better yet, file a bug at http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ so that I don't
forget about this.

Thanks,
R.

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