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

Alban Bedel albeu at free.fr
Tue Feb 19 18:22:04 CET 2008


On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:21:10 +0100
"Guillaume LECERF" <foxcore at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 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
> <snip> AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> Starting playback...
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x864bd40]stream 1, offset 0xe5f: partial
> file [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x864bd40]stream 1, offset 0xe79:
> partial file
> 
> But if I download the file locally, it plays flawlessly.
> 
> Here are some url of streams not played :
> http://m.podshow.com/media/3507/episodes/97393/bestofyoutube-97393-02-02-2008.mp4
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BestOfDailymotion/~5/219758919/dailymotion-94587-01-13-2008.mp4

Both play perfectly with the (somewhat old) version installed on my
system (r22570). So there was a regression.

	Albeu




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