[MPlayer-users] Question about MPlayer, Theora and YCbCr444 format

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:16:37PM +0100, Giorgio wrote:
> So I'm having problems when Mplayer plays color 444 files. It may be
> my fault, a bug somewhere in my program, but before I make other tests
> I was wondering if MPlayer can read Theora-encoded YCbCr444 files.

FFmpeg's theora decoder can't decode that, so if you end up using that it can't.
It should be able to if you compile it against libtheora and make it use it
(not sure if just -vc theora works).