[MPlayer-users] How to identify missing video-codec?

[Nico Sabbi]

Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
>
> Anyway, your version of MPlayer is way out of date, and it doesn't 
> know what to do with H.264 video. You should be warned that the 
> version of H.264 produced in open source (known as x264) isn't totally 
> up to snuff. The FFMPEG H.264 decoder is pretty good, though, but not 
> perfect. Playing a two and a half minute long trailer (Apple produced, 
> H.264, 480p at 2.35:1), MPlayer produced a lot of "Error while 
> decoding frame!" messages, mostly because all of H.264 hasn't been 
> fully reverse engineered.

H264 is an open standard, there's no need to reverse engineer anything 
at all: specs are available
 
 
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