[MPlayer-users] How to play MTV files?

Andrew Savchenko Bircoph at list.ru
Thu May 22 04:11:58 CEST 2008


Hi,

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 20:42, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> And I forgot to say:
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 04:59:47AM +0400, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > Am I missing some (binary?) codec
>
> [...]
>
> certainly not, there is no "codec" involved, the video is in
> uncompressed RGB format, those "video" players can display
> video, but they don't have enough power to decode anything
> besides audio.

Oh, now I undrestand why MTV files are so large for so poor video 
quality. Originally I thought they use some cheap compression 
algorithm.
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