[MPlayer-users] Size of MP4 video not correctly recognized.

[Richard S.]

Hernan Badino schrieb:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> My Sanyo camera records mp4 files which cannot be played correctly by
> mplayer. I remember that with some previous version (I don't know
> which one) I could play the file without problem but now I only can
> see the upper-left quarter of the video (320x240) instead of the full
> VGA. My current mplayer version is not the last from repository but is
> not older than 1 month. Nevertheless, I can remember this problem was
> already there with the last release version of mplayer.
>
> A sample file is available in the following url:
>
> http://www.lelaps.de/photos/VCLP6549.MP4
>
The metadata(moov box/atom)  of your mp4 file is wrong. The width and
height is set to 320x240.
http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wrongwidthandheight1xb2.png
http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wrongwidthandheight2xx1.png

Remux  your  file with MP4Box( http://gpac.sf.net ):

MP4Box -add oldfile.mp4  newfile.mp4

Richard