[MPlayer-users] MP4Box hinting broke mplayer playback

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Leif Lundstrom <wrtrdrctr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> My fault for not fully testing a technology, but, I ran MP4Box -hint
> against my LARGE mp4 collection on Ubuntu 9.04. It ran without errors,
> but now video can only play smoothly for 13-15 minutes on any file in
> MPlayer. I've tested in MPlayer, SMPlayer, Boxee, Totem and vlc. Now
> here are the results: (S)Mplayer can only play the first 13-15 minutes
> smoothly afterwards it becomes choppy and unwatchable, Totem and vlc
> both play the files fine (playing straight through and seeking) but,
> and here's the odd point, if I use vlc to stream a video to my phone
> (HTC Dream/Android/G1) the same behavior presents itself at the exact
> same time mark on the video.
>
> My question is if anyone knows what
> this behavior is and how to resolve it? I made an attempt to unhint the
> files, but this caused some files to dissapear and the ones that didn't
> still exhibit the same behavior as before. I sure hope there's a dev
> out there listening. I'm also posting this to mplayer and vlc in the
> hopes that someone knows the culprit.

Please retry with option "-demuxer lavf"

All your problems should magically go away then :-)

Guillaume
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