Re: MKV file play??

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2009-07-07 23:00, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>> Well I have at least 20 which don't.
>>> http://jengelh.medozas.de/files/takeshi.mkv
>>>
>>> [lib]Xine 1.1.16.3 just reports "[mpeg4 error @ 0xaddresshere]"" and that's
>>> it. MPlayer has no issue playing these mkv files.
>> xine takeshi.mkv
>> Dies ist xine (X11 gui) - Ein freier Video-Player v0.99.5.
>> (c) 2000-2007 Das xine Team.
>> [mpeg4 @ 0x18e7ba0]header damaged
>> [mpeg4 @ 0x18f3310]header damaged
>>
>> mplayer takeshi.mkv 
>> MPlayer SVN-r29330-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
>> MPlayer wurde durch Signal 11 im Modul init_audio_codec unterbrochen.
> [...]
>> do you have one that is not damaged?
> 
> Perhaps mplayer is broken? Or because it's GCC 4.4.0? (Mplayerhq has always
> been very careful to assess compiler problems.)
> 
> The one I am using is
> MPlayer dev-SVN-r29116-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (i686)-Packman (C) 2000-2009
> and that does the job on takeshi.mkv.
> 

I didn't try xine 1.1.16.3, but the current xine 1.2 from hg repository 
combined with the current ffmpeg from svn repository plays that sample 
file without any problems. Same goes with the current mplayer.

-Petri

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