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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:07:14PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:10:30AM -0600, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> See libmpdemux/demux_mov.c, line 460 (parsing the rdrf atom).
> The code is there to handle (some of) it, it is just not working
> well and generally has lots of issues (e.g. it really should only work
> with -playlist and then it should really follow all of those references).

Ah, I forgot: the problem with the very first file in the chain is that
it also contains a gif image, in which case MPlayer does not even try to
follow the references but instead displays the single gif...