[MPlayer-users] Problem playing .mov files with mplayer 0.9.0pre5

Per Wigren wigren at home.se
Wed Jun 26 00:24:01 CEST 2002


Just a thought.. Since VP3 is LGPL, wouldn't it be better to include a 
"native" implementation?

// Wigren

Tuesday 25 June 2002 23.59 skrev Arpi:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> > > anyway the files look broken, but even if they aren't, the problem is
> > > inside the DLL it seems. can you play these on windows using their VfW
> > > DLL codec?
> > >
> > > i have several .avi and .mov samples using this codec and all work
> > > fine, except these 2 you uploaded
> >
> > Sorry, I don't have a Windows-box around... I could try at work tommorow
> > though...
> > I got them straight from the Stormahead website http://www.stormahead.com
> > so I don't think the files are broken..
>
> yep, they are ok... more-or-less.
> i've got it working by manually hacking width/height in the file to be
> multiple of 16. it seems that VfW codec doesn't like/detect/support/etc
> non-n*16 width/height frames, while the quicktime version does.
>
> i "just" have to find the right place to workaround this problem/codec bug
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team




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