[MPlayer-users] Can't play video.google.com mp4 (ffh264) videos

[Dennis Nezic]

Short 13s example video: Click on the iPod/PSP download:
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5430162752441513692&ei=EtDnSJrADYqK_QHJ1YX4Dw

Playing video.mp4.
[file] File size is 925651 bytes
STREAM: [file] video.mp4
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 811008  pre:163840  eof:0  

LAVF_check: QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
libavformat file format detected.
cache_stream_seek: WARNING! Can't seek to 0xE1FD3 !
........ it hangs here, taking up 100% cpu :|


It works if I copy-convert it in ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy test.mp4

Playing test.mp4.
[file] File size is 929012 bytes
STREAM: [file] test.mp4
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 811008  pre:163840  eof:0  

LAVF_check: QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
libavformat file format detected.
==> Found video stream: 0
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
======= VIDEO Format ======
  biSize 73
  biWidth 320
  biHeight 240
  biPlanes 0
  biBitCount 24
  biCompression 828601953='avc1'
  biSizeImage 230400
Unknown extra header dump: [1] [42] [0] [d] [ff] [e1] [0] [12] [67]
[42] [0] [d] [92] [54] [a] [f] [d0] [80] [0] [0] [32] [0] [0] [5] [da]
[c2] [1] [0] [4] [68] [ce] [3c] [80] ===========================
==> Found audio stream: 1
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 255 (0xFF)
Channels: 2
Samplerate: 48000
avg byte/sec: 0
Block align: 1
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 2
Unknown extra header dump: [11] [90] 
==========================================================================
LAVF: 1 audio and 1 video streams found
............ cut.