[MPlayer-users] Was mplayer better in 2006 ???

[Nico Sabbi]

Emmanuel Anne ha scritto:
> Hi !
>
> Maybe this subject has been discussed before, I didn't take the time to
> browse all the archives here.
> Anyway here is the problem : maybe you heard about the freebox in France, it
> broadcasts some hd streams, and some "low bitrate" h264 streams.
> With current mplayer version and default configuration (no special command
> line options), if you try to read one of these streams, you'll either get
> nothing, a crash, or no sound at all.
> Adding -demuxer lavf can help, but it makes the thing quite unstable and
> seems to add some problems.
> vlc has been able to play these streams without problem for ages.
>
> Now I happen to have an old mplayer version here because I update an old mac
> mini to be useful nowdays, and there is a version of mplayer from 2006 in
> it. It uses an internal libfaad2 version, 2.1 beta apparently.
> Anyway when using this very old version with default configuration and
> special option on the command line, all these streams play fine !
> Quite a shocking discovery for me. I'll probably have to use this old
> version for the tv recording box now...
> Ok, I'll admit it displays a few warnings on the console like :
> [h264 @ 0xd800f0]MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
> but they are harmless and everything is fine except that.
>
> I post this here in case you didn't know, and in case you have an idea to
> make the recent mplayer versions usable in this kind of situation...
>
> An example of one of these hd streams :
>    VIDEO H264(pid=68) AUDIO AAC(pid=69) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. -3778
> low bitrate :
> VIDEO H264(pid=68) AUDIO AAC(pid=80) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 1646
>
> I can post more details if you need them !
>    


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