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

[Nico Sabbi]

bond wrote:

>hi all
>
>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?
>
>cheers
>bond
>  
>

is it empty or not playable or what?
Most likely it's not playable because of the idiot way avc is usually 
stored in mov: raw nals,
so there are no syncwords, and not even SPS and PPS