[MPlayer-users] Quicktime video doesn't play

[Jack Smith]

Hello,

I downloaded a video from the Worldcon in Yokohama and tried watching
it.  All I got was a bunch of colored junk in the top 1/2 inch of my
screen and the sound.

$ mplayer -fs *
MPlayer SVN-r23784 rpm.livna.org (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing Worldcon2007_01.mov.
ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
MOV: WARNING: Variable FourCC detected!?
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 0
[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 2
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 3
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 4
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 5
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 6
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 7
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 8
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 9
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 10
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 11
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 12
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 13
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 14
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 15
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 16
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 17
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 18
VIDEO:  [rpza]  320x240  16bpp  15.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffrpza] vfm: ffmpeg (QuickTime Apple Video)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: BGR 15-bit)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using BGR 15-bit as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
[swscaler @ 0xcd7f20]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from bgr555 to yuv420p using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0xcd7f20]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal
luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xcd7f20]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal
chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xcd7f20]SwScaler: using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical
scaling (YV12 like)
[swscaler @ 0xcd7f20]SwScaler: 320x240 -> 320x240
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12  [fs]
[rpza @ 0xcdefc0]First chunk byte is 0x00 instead of 0xe1
[rpza @ 0xcdefc0]MOV chunk size != encoded chunk size; using MOV chunk size
[rpza @ 0xcdefc0]Unknown opcode 245 in rpza chunk. Skip remaining 602
bytes of chunk data.
[rpza @ 0xcdefc0]First chunk byte is 0x00 instead of 0xe1??,?% 0 0
[rpza @ 0xcdefc0]MOV chunk size != encoded chunk size; using MOV chunk size
[rpza @ 0xcdefc0]Unknown opcode 253 in rpza chunk. Skip remaining 406
bytes of chunk data.

My first thought was that I might be missing the Quicktime codec even
though I saw the line
Selected video codec: [ffrpza] vfm: ffmpeg (QuickTime Apple Video)
so I downloaded Linux AMD64 20062003, untarred it and read the README
file.  Didn't know how to tell where to put them so I tried
/usr/local/lib/codecs, /usr/lib/codecs, /usr/lib/win32 and even
/usr/lib64/codecs.  Reran mplayer and got the same result.

Any idea what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks,
Jack

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