[MPlayer-users] mplayer error: Error while decoding frame!

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi Ross!

Chang,Yi-Wen wrote:

>> I tried to send some frames, not a whole file. And, dump the stream data.
>> I found that, MPlayer just receives data from the fifth frame (not complete frame) and lost the first 4 frames,
>> so that results in no complete header and error while decoding frame in MPlayer.
> 
>> Do you know what reasons possibly result in that? (I use ethereal and no packet is lost)
> 
> Now, we solved the problem by repeating to send the first frame for 5 or 6 times 
> and then continue sending the successive frames. And, now mplayer can play streaming normally.
> 
> But, we still don't know why Mplayer lose the first 4~5 frames.
> By Ethereal, we look that, at first, our RTSP server sends frames to a specific port at destination 
> that Mplayer place, but Mplayer doesn't use the port. 
> After a while, Mplayer does use the specific port.
> I am not sure the is the reason to result in data loss in MPlayer.

Could you comment on that report?

Carl Eugen