[MPlayer-dev-eng] Broken Quicktime Files

[Alex Beregszaszi]

<Pine.SOL.4.05.10202141031300.21083-100000 at babu.pcisys.net>; from melanson at pcisys.net on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:36:11AM -0700
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> 
> > Also it's got bad (or old?) CVID in it. (cannot be decoded with opensource cvid,
> > xanim cvid and vfw cvid (this one segfaults at init))
> 
> 	Just curious (since I haven't bothered to get XAnim codec support
> up and running), can you test if the XAnim CVID decoder can handle the
> FILM CVID data? The VFW decoder chokes on it. Our decoder had to be
> strengthened to work with it.

Also it isn't working with xanim (i tested it before with mplayer's xanim dll :)

This CVID is probarly BAD or other version (radius' special anti-opensource version?)
Also i didn't contains other frame_flags (always 0 as in the most of cvid anims)

> 
> > The first problem I found is that, that on 0x2000 chunk_id (CVID), the codebook
> > reader reads over the next chunk (0x3000), after fixed this problem, the next
> > bug comes in the 0x3000 chunks.
> > 
> > I think you should delete it, or convert to avi and test on windows.
> 
> 	Fine by me. When we can't find any program that can deal with a
> file (even the official player program), it's probably safe to qualify it
> as a "bad file".

Write it on a CD and put it into the vitrine ;)

> 
> 	Thanks for your investigation into the matter...