[MPlayer-users] GIF fourcc revisited

[Roberto Togni]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:02:54 +1030
Rick Harris <rickharris at mightylegends.zapto.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Going back a few months there was mention of problems getting Quicktime files 
> to play that contained the GIF fourcc.
> 
> See 
> http://itdp.fh-biergarten.de/~itdp/html/mplayer-users/2005-09/msg00491.html
> 
> I too have come across this problem recently...
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x20666967.
> 
> Here's the full output, the file is the high res. movie trailer (17MB) 
> obtained from http://www.jurassicpunk.com/movies/kungpow.shtml
> 
> 
> <snip>
> # mplayer kung_pow_m480.mov
> 
> MPlayer dev-CVS-060305-22:41-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Sempron/Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton,Thorton (Family: 
> 6, Stepping: 0)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
> 
> 
> Warning unknown option cache-prefill at line 149
> 
> 91 audio & 206 video codecs
> Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
> Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
> Can't init input joystick
> Playing kung_pow_m480.mov.
> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
> Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
> --------------
> MOV: WARNING: Variable FOURCC detected!?
[...]

This is the real problem, MPlayer does not support files with more than
one codec per stream.

The GIF is usually a single frame at the beginning of the stream,
adding GIF support for Qt files won't solve your problem (it will be
done sooner or later anyway).

Ciao,
 Roberto