[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer and raw video

[Mats Peterson]

On 02/25/2016 09:52 PM, compn wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:12:19 +0100
> Mats Peterson <matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>
>> I just downloaded r37799, and there are still problems with raw video
>> in Matroska. Not that it's overly much used, except by me, who likes
>> to store everything in Matroska nowadays. But it's on the right
>> track, at least. FFplay handles all of these files correctly (as
>> expected), so perhaps it would be a good idea to use libavformat's
>> demuxer for files containing raw video, if at all possible. As you
>> said yourself, it's hardly top priority, and I know that too, but I
>> just wanted to make you guys aware of the problems.
>
> mplayer uses lavf mkv by default since a few years, because we stopped
> maintaining mplayer mkv demuxer. mplayer mkv demuxer has problems with
> h264 iirc.
>

Interesting fact that it uses lavf mkv. Then it should work correctly, 
but try this Matroska file with uncompressed 8 bpp QuickTime video, and 
which MPlayer plays with the wrong colors (works fine with FFplay):

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3_pEBoLs0faVmFONjBZMlhYQWc