[MPlayer-users] iMovie encoded h264, mplayer says "first frame is no keyframe"

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello,

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Towncat <towncat.towncat at gmail.com> wrote:
> I encoded some home videos with iMovie under Mac OSX. I used the "Export
> using QuickTime" feature, Movie to MPEG-4, "video format" H.264, bitrate
> 2000, framerate 25, keyframe: automatic (btw., what would be a reasonable
> number here?), optimized for CD/DVD-ROM.
>
> The resulting clips play nicely under MacOSX's QuickTime player (what would
> you expect...? :-) ), but when I try to play them with mplayer either under
> Mac or Linux, I get the error "first frame is no keyframe". The clip is
> played, but the first few seconds are garbled.
>
> Is there an option for mplayer playback to avoid this, or maybe an encoding
> option in iMovie I might try?
>
> (I also tried the "MPEG-4 Improved" "video format", and that did not cause
> the same error ("video format" in iMovie I guess is used to mean "codec").


Could you please upload a 5-10 seconds samples?

Guillaume
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