[MPlayer-users] MP4 container question [SOLVED]

[ajaxas]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:49:18 -0400
Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 28 December 2007 09:10:30 pm RC wrote:
> > MP4 supports only a much smaller subset of the features found in (the
> > massive and complex) MOV.  
> 
> I see.  So if they're technically not the same, shouldn't MPlayer show the mp4 
> files as mp4?  I still get "Quicktime/MOV file format detected" whenever I 
> play an mp4 file.

It's just a demuxer. You can use either mplayer's original MOV/MP4 demuxer, or
lavformat demuxer (doesn't support embedded subtitles yet and a couple of
other features as well, but it works).

The last one may be enabled this way: mplayer -demuxer lavf your_file.

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ajaxas <ajaxas at gmail.com>