Opened 20 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#296 new defect

quicktime mov reference/playlist file not working in mplayer

Reported by: theoco@… Owned by: reimar
Priority: normal Component: demuxer
Version: HEAD Severity: normal
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Reproduced by developer: no Analyzed by developer: no

Description

All of the quick time movies at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html, do not play correctly.

user@mycomputer$ mplayer http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/eu.mov
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.3-20050110 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: SSE

Warning unknown option cache_min at line 144
Warning unknown option cache_prefill at line 147

77 audio & 189 video codecs
Playing http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/eu.mov.
Resolving www.pbs.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.pbs.org[149.48.192.121]:80 ...
Cache size set to 8192 KBytes
Connected to server: www.pbs.org
Cache fill: 1.27% (106370 bytes) QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
Compressed header uses zlib algo!
Compressed header size: 5428 / 43480


MOV track #0: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 0)


MOV track #1: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 1)


MOV track #2: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 2)


MOV track #3: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 3)


MOV track #4: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 4)


MOV track #5: 1 chunks, 0 samples
MOV: Found unknown movie atom \uffffAllocated 256 entries for palette
Loading palette from file
Image size: 452 x 21 (8 bpp)
Display size: 452 x 21
Fourcc: gif Codec: 'GIF'


MOV track #6: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 6)


MOV track #7: 0 chunks, 0 samples
* constant samplesize & variable duration not yet supported! *
Contact the author if you have such sample file!
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 7)


MOV: longest streams: A: #-1 (0 samples) V: #5 (1 samples)
VIDEO: [gif ] 452x21 8bpp 1.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:

copyright: \uffff 2003 WGBH Educational Foundation
encoder: Made with LiveStage Pro

vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
display)==========================================================================
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x20666967.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================

Exiting... (End of file)

Hope this helps! Thanks for the great work!

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski, 19 years ago

I was able to extract a gif image from that video using MPlayer CVS 20050420:
mplayer -dumpvideo -dumpfile eu.dump eu.mov
dd if=eu.dump of=eu.gif bs=4 skip=1
The resulting file is a viewable gif image, but contains nothing more than a
horizontal bar.

comment:2 by diego@…, 19 years ago

Component: vovd
Owner: changed from alex@… to r_togni@…

comment:3 by compn, 18 years ago

Component: vddemuxer
op_sys: LinuxAll
rep_platform: PC (x86 with SSE)All
Severity: majornormal
Version: 1.0pre6HEAD

eu.mov is a reference media file, with a gif image.

G:\Desktop\mplayer-test>strings eu.mov|grep url
url nova_eu_3012c01_ref.mov
url nova_eu_3012c01_caps.mov

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/nova_eu_3012c01_caps.mov is the
captions (subtitles)

wget http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/nova_eu_3012c01_ref.mov

G:\Desktop\mplayer-test>strings nova_eu_3012c01_ref.mov|grep mov
nova_eu_3012c01_mp4_ref.mov
nova_eu_3012c01_hi_ref.mov
nova_eu_3012c01_lo_ref.mov

wget http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/nova_eu_3012c01_hi_ref.mov

G:\Desktop\mplayer-test>strings nova_eu_3012c01_hi_ref.mov|grep http
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/wgbh/http/nova_eu/nova_eu_3012c01_hi_ref.mov

see, it changed from pbs to apple server...

G:\Desktop\mplayer-test>strings nova_eu_3012c01_hi_ref.mov.1|grep http
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/wgbh/http/nova_eu/nova_eu_3012c01_hi_100.mov

G:\Desktop\mplayer-test>strings nova_eu_3012c01_hi_100.mov|grep http
http://a388.g.akamai.net/5/388/142/3f9e93f2/
1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf
0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c01_hi_100.mov

which is a 17mb file :) typical apple playlist in a playlist in a playlist crap.

this also affects -demuxer lavf.

comment:4 by compn, 18 years ago

Summary: Unable to play QuickTime moviequicktime mov reference/playlist file not working in mplayer

http://www.siggraph.org/soma/SIG04/Media/disc4/crs022-1.mov
has a link to:
rtsp://vstream.acm.org/10.1145/siggraph2004/courses4/crs022-1.mp4

another mov file with reference link that mplayer and demuxer lavf does not follow.

comment:5 by compn, 14 years ago

Owner: changed from r_togni@… to reimar
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