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

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 09/01/2009 09:53 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:24:37PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> With latest SVN this is actually the only issue (well, and depending on
> your view the fact that MPlayer now plays all three variants of the
> video one after the other).
> I.e. mplayer
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/nova_eu_3012c01_ref.mov
> now works.

Good to see that you were able to make it work in mplayer as well. I
just finished the parser in gecko-mediaplayer that works with these
files so now you can open them directly from the website and you don't
have to go url spelunking.

Kevin

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