[MPlayer-users] recorded H.264-HD not playing

[Dietmar Hofer]

thanks alot.
Btw. is it difficult/unpossible to recognize the video codec on it's own? How 
can this work with ffdshow in Windows?
Maybe I'll take a look to the src code to understand more (if it doesn't scare 
me too much ;-)

> Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > Dietmar Hofer wrote:
> >>> you didn't save the PAT and PMT pid, so mplayer can't know that this
> >>> file contains H264
> >>
> >> I know.
> >> But that it's H.264 it should understand by me giving -vc ffh264,
> >> shouldn't it? But that also doesn't work. Can I tell the vcodec
> >> somehow else?
> >
> > I'll send you an unofficial patch
>
> here it is. Add -tsvformat 0x10000005 to force H264 assignment to
> sh_video->format
> (and consequently choose one of the availeble H264 decoders).
> Just don't ask me to commit it :)