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

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On Apr 19, 2006, at 12.53, Corey Hickey wrote:

> Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
>>> Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
>>>> 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!"
>>>
>>> Do you have framedrop enabled in an mplayer config file somewhere?
>> I enabled it in the command line. I've never had a wonderful  
>> experience with H.264 on my laptop, in terms of decoding it, and  
>> I'd never used MPlayer for H.264 playback, so I used it to be on  
>> the safe side.  I guess if that's causing the problem, then  
>> problem solved!
>
> If you're having performance problems with h.264 decoding (it needs  
> a hefty CPU compared to other formats),
Well, I only have 1GHz to work with, and PPC isn't the best supported  
platform. However, when I run the trailer with QuickTime, I have next  
to no problems
> try the skiploopfilter option. See the man page. For example:
>
> $ mplayer file.mov -lavdopts skiploopfilter=nonref

You know, I find it interesting that I make mention of something, and  
all of a sudden, I'm receiving more help for a problem with something  
I barely use than the person who started the thread ;)

>
> -Corey

Thanks anyway!
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