[MPlayer-users] Can't get .MOV file to work.

[Roberto Togni]

On Tue, 31 May 2005 13:13:38 +0400
Ilya Kasnacheev <ilyak at office.uw.ru> wrote:

> I have a mov-file. I can't play it with MPlayer, vlc, whatever. 
> libquicktime sees 0 streams inside as everybody else:
> 
> ==
> Playing sample.mov.
> Cache fill:  6,25% (524288 bytes)    QuickTime/MOV file format
detected.
> --------------
> MOV track #0: 1 chunks, 0 samples
> Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 0)
> --------------
> MOV: longest streams: A: #-1 (0 samples)  V: #-1 (0 samples)
> No stream found.
> ==
> File sample.mov:
>   0 audio tracks.
>   0 video tracks.
> ==
> 
> Apple's QuickTime player plays it fine (if 'fine' can be ever said
about 
> QuickTime player), and thinks this file is:
> http://www.webcenter.ru/~ilyak/qtinfo.gif
> 
> I've uploaded a small part of this file (it was 70+M, i dd'ed 512k. It

> is still playable, i've checked) to
> http://www.webcenter.ru/~ilyak/sample.mov
> 
> Please, tell me, what do I miss.
> Maybe some crappy DRM? I've got this file from audio (mixed) CD.

MPEG stored in generic track, can't be autodetected yet but it works,
use mplayer -demuxer 2 to play ti

Ciao,
 Roberto