[MPlayer-dev-eng] Broken Quicktime Files

Alex Beregszaszi alex at naxine.org
Fri Feb 15 21:59:41 CET 2002


Hi,

> > 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)
> 
> 	Are you talking about the FILM CVID data or the CVID data in those
> broken QT files? About the FILM CVID data, it probably wasn't about being
> anti-opensource. It was more likely about being unable to play the data
> through a generic VFW-style codec.
> 
> 	I found the page where I got those 2 broken QT files:
>   http://www.cinepak.com/comparison.html
> The whole reason I wanted to get the files in the first place was to see
> if this spiffy new enhanced Cinepak format conformed to the same format as
> the original flavor. It has the same FOURCC.

Hmm! I hacked our cinpeak decoder to work with the first 3-4 chunks ;)
(chunkid depended)

Ehh, apple_cv.mov is the old cinepak (also it didn't worked!!) and ctk_pro.mov
is the newer one, although both are badly muxed.

Continuing later..

-
alex



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