[MPlayer-users] Sudden h264 error

[Peter Magnusson]

I download new musicvideos all the time, and all of sudden some of them 
started to have strange errors so they cant be played. See here:

MPlayer SVN-r31179-snapshot-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Playing 
/temp/temp/mvids/Agnes-Release_Me_(2010_NewNowNext_Awards)-x264-2010-VFi
/agnes-release_me_(2010_newnownext_awards)-x264-2010-vfi.mkv.
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
[mkv] Track 2 has been compressed with an unknown/unsupported compression
[mkv] algorithm (3). Skipping track.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AC3), -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [avc1]  720x480  24bpp  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
[ac3 @ 0x8958040]frame sync error
[ac3 @ 0x8958040]frame sync error
[ac3 @ 0x8958040]frame sync error
[ac3 @ 0x8958040]frame sync error
[ac3 @ 0x8958040]frame sync error
[ac3 @ 0x8958040]frame sync error
Unknown/missing audio format -> no sound
ADecoder init failed :(
Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
hwac3: switched to AC3, 320000 bps, 32000 Hz
AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3be, 320.0 kbit/31.25% (ratio: 40000->128000)
Selected audio codec: [hwac3] afm: hwac3 (AC3 through S/PDIF)
==========================================================================
[format] Sample format big-endian AC3 not yet supported
Error at audio filter chain pre-init!
Exiting... (Fatal error)

Anyone that know why its like this? The group that encoded this musicvideo
said that he upgrades the H.264 codec on regular basis and said that it 
*might* be that. He doesnt belive it to be the mkv container itself.

I have tried the mplayer-export-2010-09-06 version but it doesnt solve the 
problem.

I installed a newer version of x264:

x264 0.102.x
built on Sep  6 2010, gcc: 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)

instead of:

x264 0.68.x
built on Jul  8 2009, gcc: 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)

...but it didnt help :(
Help! :)