[MPlayer-users] BUG: not possible to extract correct raw avc streams from .mov

[Loren Merritt]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, bond wrote:

> i can play avc-in-mov as produced by quicktime 7, but i cant extract a
> correct raw avc stream with mplayer from the same .mov files (eg the ones
> apple offers on its HD site):
> eg with the following commandline:
> mplayer -dumpvideo -dumpfile raw.264 nasa_shuttle-r_m720p.mov
>
> any idea why? are the nals missing after extraction or?

h264-in-mp4 (or mov) does not have NAL startcodes. There may also be 
issues with SPS/PPS being in a stream header instead of inline.

--Loren Merritt