[MPlayer-users] MP4Box hinting broke mplayer playback

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:15:29PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Leif Lundstrom <wrtrdrctr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > My fault for not fully testing a technology, but, I ran MP4Box -hint
> > against my LARGE mp4 collection on Ubuntu 9.04. It ran without errors,
> > but now video can only play smoothly for 13-15 minutes on any file in
> > MPlayer. I've tested in MPlayer, SMPlayer, Boxee, Totem and vlc. Now
> > here are the results: (S)Mplayer can only play the first 13-15 minutes
> > smoothly afterwards it becomes choppy and unwatchable, Totem and vlc
> > both play the files fine (playing straight through and seeking) but,
> > and here's the odd point, if I use vlc to stream a video to my phone
> > (HTC Dream/Android/G1) the same behavior presents itself at the exact
> > same time mark on the video.
> >
> > My question is if anyone knows what
> > this behavior is and how to resolve it? I made an attempt to unhint the
> > files, but this caused some files to dissapear and the ones that didn't
> > still exhibit the same behavior as before. I sure hope there's a dev
> > out there listening. I'm also posting this to mplayer and vlc in the
> > hopes that someone knows the culprit.
> 
> Please retry with option "-demuxer lavf"

But that is already the default for MP4, so that would be due to using an
ancient and outdated MPlayer version...