[MPlayer-users] File format misdetected

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:04:58PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> I grabbed a number of files from a digital camera using `dvgrab'.
> `file' identifies all of them as "DIF (DV) movie file (PAL)":
> 
> ...but mplayer refuses to play dvgrab-005.dv:

Is the content of the file so you could make it available to us?
There have been patches to improve DV file handling, but with only the
few sample files we have it got stuck in an endless discussion...
In the mean time you could try -demuxer dv though.