[MPlayer-users] howto play apples quicktime movie trailers (720p)

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 08 January 2006 at 19:39, Markus Schulz wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 8. Januar 2006 19:09 schrieb Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski:
> > On Sunday, 08 January 2006 at 18:02, Markus Schulz wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, 8. Januar 2006 15:25 schrieb Dominik 'Rathann' 
> Mierzejewski:
> > > > On Sunday, 08 January 2006 at 14:34, Markus Schulz wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > i'm trying to view the apple quicktime 720p movie trailers like
> > > > > king kong or others. All of them generate errors like attache
> > > > > below. Are there any other codecs i can use for h.264 movies?
> > > > >
> > > > > ***************************************************************
> > > > >*** MPlayer dev-CVS--4.0.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> > > >
> > > >           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > Don't use broken packages that hide their real version. These
> > > > aren't supported.
> > >
> > > ok, was a selfmade deb-package built of marrilat sources
> > > (1:1.0-pre7cvs20060103-0.0)
> > >
> > > But i've tried also a cvs version. it's exatly the same for _ALL_
> > > Trailers i've got from apple.
> > >
> > > > Most latest QT trailers are fixed in latest CVS.
> > >
> > > don't think so in my case, i've tried the following:
> > > apocalypto-tsr1_h720p.mov
> > > bubble-tlr_h720p.mov
> > > da_vinci_code-tsr2_h720p.mov
> > > ice_age_2-tsr_h720p.mov
> > > king_kong-tlr_h720p.mov
> > > superman_returns-tlr1_h720p.mov
> > >
> > > and many more, _all_ of them are producing this failures.
> > > Where did the problem come from? I think from ffmpeg library?
> > > It's also from latest cvs. Perhaps some configure switches wrong by
> > > building libav*?
> > >
> > > What can i do else? You can watch the clips error free?
> >
> > But playback works fine despit these warnings, doesn't it?
> 
> no, it hangs every time this msg is dropped and looks like the frame (+ 
> some of the next ones) was dropped. In passages were no errors where 
> printed, the videos runs smoothly and fine. But most of the parts 
> generates these errors.

It could be ALSA-related. Try enabling/disabling mmap mode or using OSS.

> > At least it does for me with some of the trailers you mentioned.
> also the 720p ones?

Yes.

> the 576p/480p versions are not h264 (iirc) and run's fine here too.

480p are all h264.

R.

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