[MPlayer-dev-eng] Can't play mp4 over http

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:21:10PM +0100, Guillaume LECERF wrote:
> I experience a weird problem here : many mp4 files can't be correctly
> played when streamed over http.
> I use mplayer svn, and it's definitely not a ffmpeg problem, as the
> files almost play with ffplay.
> Here is an output :
> 
> $ ./mplayer http://m.podshow.com/media/3507/episodes/97393/bestofyoutube-97393-02-02-2008.mp4

mov/mp4 files are supposed to be prepared for streaming (e.g. with
ffmpeg's qt-faststart).
While it is in principle possible to play it anyway, it will have a big
startup delay and it needs good support for seeking over http, which
MPlayer has not (yet).

> <snip>
> AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Congratulations, you too managed to snip the most useful part, namely
that saying
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0xbf51a0]Could not find codec parameters (Video: h264, 320x240 [PAR 0:1 DAR 0:1])

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger