[MPlayer-users] Unable to play Apple ProRes 422 sample

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 08:34:35AM +1000, andrew wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:25:25PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > andrew <andrew.david.52 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > I am unable to play the sample Apple ProRes 422 sample file on the
> > > MPlayer 'samples' site:
> > > 
> > > http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/HCPA/Boar__Apple_ProRes_422-partial.mov
> > 
> > You have to copy AppleProResDecoder.qtx into /usr/lib/win32 (or wherever your
> > binary decoders live).
> 
> Thank you Carl Eugen, this has resolved the issue.

Can we make a better error message for this?
Does a decompress error result of -8961 always mean the decoder
was not found?