[MPlayer-users] MPlayer fails to play RV40 files

[Ulf Magnusson]

On Dec 25, 2007 3:39 PM, Roberto Togni <rxt at rtogni.it> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:30:59 +0100
> "Ulf Magnusson" <ulfalizer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On Dec 25, 2007 4:22 AM, compn <tempn at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> > > Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > MPlayer fails to play the RealMedia files from
> > > > http://www.aduni.org/courses/algorithms/index.php?view=cw , writing
> > > > "No stream found." to the log. RealPlayer plays them fine. I'm looking
> > >
> > >
> > > hmm, video works with mplayer 1.0pre7 ...
> > >
> > > -compn
> > >
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> >
> > Is that a newer version than 1.0rc2? I just installed rc2 via
> > MacPorts, and I still get the same problem:
> >
> > "
> > Playing 05_lect_01.rm.
> > REAL file format detected.
> > Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream
> > Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio-recording
> > Stream description: video/x-pn-multirate-realvideo logical stream
> > Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo-recording
> > Stream mimetype: logical-fileinfo
> > Stream mimetype: logical-fileinfo
> > Stream mimetype: logical-fileinfo
> > No stream found.
> >
> >
> > Exiting... (End of file)
> > "
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, why isn't there a binary download for rc2 for OS X?
> >
>
> Very strange file. Should be a new format, since realplayer8 rejects it.
> Basically the file is a multirate file (audio/video is available at
> different bitrates in the same file).
> The main difference with known multirate file is in the header layout:
> instead of having one header for every audio or video stream, this file
> has just two headers (one for audio and one for video) with all the
> streams in it.
> I still haven't checked the layout of the DATA section, the "standard"
> multirate files are non-interleaved with one data block (+index) for
> every stream.
> also different from all known samples, this file does not use the same
> codec for all the audio tracks (some are sipr, another one is cook).
>
> I'll add support for this format, but it may take some time.
>
> Btw the video track is RV20, not RV40.
>
> About pre7: it's a very old version, that did brute force searching
> for audio and video tracks, so it can find some video; it plays video
> but audio is messy.
>
> About rc2 for macosx: afaik it's in work, no idea when it will be ready.
>
> Ciao,
>  Roberto
>
> --
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Okay, thanks for the info, and for wanting to add support =)
Is there some particular file I could monitor if I want to see if/when
it's been added?

/Ulf