[MPlayer-users] QT/MOV support

[Artur Zaprzala]

> > - It seems that mplayer scans the whole MOV before it starts playing. DV files size is
> > usually in the order of GigaBytes, so it takes long to start playing.
> no. it shouldn't scan it. it just reads the header chunk.
> upload a small (few MB) file, i'll check. maybe DV files has many small mdat
> chunks or so.
It's not DV specific.
MPlayer detects MOV after MPEG and MPEG detection code calls ds_fill_buffer(), which is to
blame for scanning the file.
Run: ltrace mplayer -v any.mov &>log
and you will find a long sequence of read() calls before mplayer decides it's not MPEG.


Artur Zaprzała