[MPlayer-users] iMovie encoded h264, mplayer says "first frame is no keyframe"

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Towncat <towncat.towncat at gmail.com> wrote:

> I uploaded the files "20090202 Mplayer first frame is no keyframe test.mp4"
> and "20090202 Mplayer first frame is no keyframe test.txt".
>
> The explanation again:
>
> "20090202 Mplayer test.mp4
>
> The clip is encoded with iMovie '08 (v7.1.4.) under Mac OSX. I used the
> following options: "Export using QuickTime" feature, Movie to MPEG-4, "video
> format" H.264, bitrate 2000, framerate 25, keyframe: automatic, optimized
> for CD/DVD-ROM.
>
> The resulting clip plays nicely under MacOSX's QuickTime player (v7.6) , but
> when I try to play them with mplayer either under Mac (v1.0 rc2) or Linux
> (Debian, v.dev-SVN-r25315, or dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.2.3), I get the error
> "first frame is no keyframe". The clip is played, but the first few seconds
> are garbled."

It plays fine with SVN version of MPlayer, please grab a snapshot and
enjoy your movie!

Guillaume
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