[MPlayer-users] help with h.264 quicktime 7 streaming in firefox

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 19 August 2006 at 19:26, Kevin Murphy wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper, which is great, but lacking in
> the video file format categories, I couldn't view certain file formats
> or streaming with browser plugins, until I ran the Automatix script
> (very awsome that...) which installed mplayer along with much more.
> Now I can view all sorts of web content aside from html... with one
> exception, I visit a site that streams Quicktime 7 h.264 video clips
> (http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/) but I cannot get them to play with the
> mplayer plugin for firefox... can anyone offer any suggestions as to
> why or how to fix??

If you try extracting the URL for the movie and running mplayer
manually, you'll see:
$ mplayer http://onegoodmovemedia.org/movies/0608/ko081806bushismp.mov
MPlayer dev-Fedora-GS-SVN-r19160-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2


93 audio & 212 video codecs
[MENU] Can't open menu config file: /home/dominik/.mplayer/menu.conf
Menu inited: /etc/mplayer/menu.conf

Playing http://onegoodmovemedia.org/movies/0608/ko081806bushismp.mov.
STREAM_HTTP(1), URL: http://onegoodmovemedia.org/movies/0608/ko081806bushismp.mov
Resolving onegoodmovemedia.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server onegoodmovemedia.org[208.113.133.167]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill:  2.79% (9151 bytes)
ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
VIDEO:  [jpeg]  320x256  24bpp  15.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=52428913.
[ass] auto-open
[ass] init
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
[mjpeg @ 0xc5bcf0]mjpeg: unsupported coding type (c2)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I guess these files are simply unsupported yet.

VDec: vo config request - 320 x 256 (preferred colorspace: Unknown)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.

FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).


Exiting... (End of file)

Regards,
R.

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