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

[Alban Bedel]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:22:04 +0100
Alban Bedel <albeu at free.fr> wrote:

> 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.

I missed something before sending my previous mail. The old version use
mplayer's mov demuxer and it still work fine with -demuxer mov. So the
bug is most probably in the lavf warper.

	Albeu