[MPlayer-users] mplayer libavformat hang on .m4a file/Fedora 10+rpmfusion

[Richard Chan]

I recently upgraded to Fedora 10 with the corresponding rpms from
rpmfusion.org

mplayer-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10.x86_64
ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.fc10.x86_64
ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.fc10.x86_64

mplayer hangs on playback of any .m4a file that was created with faac.

This previously worked under Fedora 9 with rpms from rpm.livna.org.
The .m4a file is working with vlc, ffplay, rhythmbox.

mplayer/Fedora 10  works on many other media files such as ogg, mp3, flv.


Here is the -v output:

Playing track01.m4a.
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/richard/.mplayer/sub/'
[file] File size is 4607093 bytes
STREAM: [file] track01.m4a
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
LAVF_check: QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
libavformat file format detected.
stream_seek: WARNING! Can't seek to 0x464C75 !

and it just sits there spinning CPU. Ctrl-C gives

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open

so it seems to be a hang in the demuxer.

Any suggestions? Tks.

The .m4a file is too large to post here but if anyone is willing try on
Fedora 10/rpmfusion
please shout.