[MPlayer-users] wrong codec detection

Dominik Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Wed Feb 5 13:25:07 CET 2003


On Wednesday, 05 February 2003, Reik Keutterling wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hallo mplayer-users,
> 
> I tried to play quicktime movie file which i downloaded from:
> http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.mov
> 
> but i get follwing Errors:
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> $ mplayer animatrixlgfinal_dl.mov
[...]
> QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
> --------------
> MOV: WARNING: Variable FOURCC detected!?
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

MPlayer doesn't support this kind of files.

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