[MPlayer-users] help with quicktime files playback and flash video encoding

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 2/21/07, Razvan Cosma <razvan.cosma at pronetis.ro> wrote:
>  Hi all,
> I'm trying to use mencoder instead of Sorenson Squeeze to convert .mov
> files to .flv (it actually compresses better and faster than the $250
> encoder and has a wealth of command-line options).
> Things generally work smoothly with options like:
> C:\Apps\MPlayer\mencoder.exe test.mov -lavfopts
> i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames -vf scale=320:240
> -ffourcc FLV1 -of lavf -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts
> dia=2:precmp=2:cmp=2:subcmp=2:vcodec=flv:vbitrate=168:acodec=mp3:abitrate=56
> -srate 22050 -o test.flv
> but recently I receive some files that mplayer/mencoder decode really
> badly (dropped frames, white noise instead of sound).
> Sample clip that works fine: http://razvan.cosma.name/moonwalking_bird.mov
> Broken clip (works fine in quicktime player, though):
> http://razvan.cosma.name/worlds_most_dangerous_drug.mov
> ..both are public promo clips, you can safely download them :)
> Using MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1.zip on XP, copied QuickTime.qts ver.
> 7.1.3.100 in C:\WINDOWS\mplayer\codecs.
> (btw, how can I check if and what codecs exactly is mplayer loading when
> it opens a clip?)
> Can anyone suggest what makes mplayer choke on the second clip?

It plays fine with MPlayer dev-SVN-r21888-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

Please use SVN version, and you should be fine.

Guillaume