[MPlayer-users] weird problem with -demuxer lafv and mp4 files

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:40:30PM +0200, Nick Koretsky wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:35:21 +0600
> ajaxas <ajaxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:17:45 +0200
> > Nick Koretsky <nikita at public.ua.net> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Something weird is going on here, and i don't understand where to look
> > > for....
> > 
> > Well, there's a lot of strange things with the way(s) mplayer handles MP4
> > container demuxing.  As you just mentioned, there are two demuxers:
> > MOV/MP4 demuxer and lavf, and both don't work correctly.
> 
> Well, my problem doesn't seems to be purely mplayer's, because -demuxer
> lavf does work for some people without mentioned slideshow effect! 
> 
> > 1. Lavf doesn't handle subtitles and sometimes fails on files which
> > MOV/MP4 demuxer does properly. Usually, it doesn't decode audio stream.
> > Here's the example:
> 
> use -vc +(codec) for .mp4 with not ac3 sound

Upload a sample file with those problems to
ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming (or see if there maybe is
already one on http://samples.mplayerhq.hu), otherwise it might take
ages until someone even tries to fix it.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger