[MPlayer-users] Problem with QT video from pbs.org

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 09/01/2009 07:52 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:15:05AM -0600, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
>> I'm having some issues playing a video from pbs.org, is there anything I
>> can do to try and playlist one?
>>
>> [kdekorte at quad ~]$ mplayer
>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/eu-doubled.mov
> 
> Oh dear, what a horrible setup.
> $ strings -n15 eu-doubled.mov 
> url nova_eu_3012c01_ref.mov
> url nova_eu_3012c01_caps.mov
> 
> So
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/nova_eu_3012c01_caps.mov
> has the subtitles.
> 
> $ strings -n15 nova_eu_3012c01_ref.mov 
> nova_eu_3012c01_mp4_ref.mov
> nova_eu_3012c01_hi_ref.mov
> nova_eu_3012c01_lo_ref.mov
> 
> More reference files, leading to e.g.
> http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/wgbh/http/nova_eu/nova_eu_3012c01_mp4_ref.mov
> 
> Hey, guess what? More reference files!
> Leading to e.g.
> http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/wgbh/http/nova_eu/nova_eu_3012c01_mp4_300.mov
> 
> Can you guess what it is? Yes, it is a reference file. Some people just
> never heard of HTTP redirect, and are stuck in "when all you have is a
> hammer, everything is a nail" mode. Well, actually it's "if all you have
> is QuickTime, ...", but nevermind.
> 
> Btw. it points to
> http://a768.g.akamai.net/5/768/142/3f9e9589/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c01_mp4_300.mov
> 
> which plays just fine in MPlayer (though not with -demuxer lavf?).
> Sorry, no subtitles though, no idea if/how it would be possible to munge
> them in from that very first referenced file.
> There are probably some higher/different quality versions there if you
> follow some other "reference chain".
> 
> I hope you understand that I almost feel it is a good thing that MPlayer
> does not follow all this mess... (though I have to admit that someone
> did try to implement trying to follow all those references in MPlayer,
> it just stops working at some point - though honestly I think that might
> be something that a frontend can hack together better).

Well nice to know that this a reference file. I guess I'll get to work
on creating a parser for that crap in gecko-mediaplayer.

Kevin


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