Re: Cant decode mpeg-4 stream with xvid_decraw

Christoph Lampert <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:57:41 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xvid.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Daniela Rainer wrote:
> As we don't have the camera yet, the camera manufacturer
> send as a captured stream, which should be 
> "MPEG-4 (ISO/IEC 14496)".
> [...]
> 000000 cfcfd0cf d0d0cfd0 d0cfcfcf cfcfd0d0
> 000010 cfcfcfcf cfd0d1cf cdcfd2cf cfd0cfce
> 000020 d2d2d2cf d2d1cfd0 d0d0d0d0 d0cfcfcf
> 000030 d1d1d0d1 d1d0cfd0 cfd0d0d1 d0d0cfd0
> 000040 cfcfcfd0 cecfcece d0cfcfcf cfcfcfcf
> 000050 cfcfcece d0cfcece cfcececf cecfcfcf
> 000060 cfcfcfce cececfce cfcfcfcf ced0cfd0
> 000070 d0d0cfcf cfd0cfcf cfcfcfd0 cfd0cfcf
> 000080 cfcfd0cf cfcfcfcf d0cfcfd0 cfcfd0d0
> 000090 d1d0cfcf cfcfcfd0 cdcecfcf cfd0d0d0
> 0000a0 d0cfd0cf cecfcfcf cfd1d0d0 cfd1d0d0
> 0000b0 d1d0d0cf cfcfd1d1 d0d0d2d1 d2d1d1d1
> 0000c0 d2cecfd2 cfd1d1cf d1d2d2d0 d1cfd0d0
> 0000d0 cfd1cfcf cfd1d2d0 d0d1d0d0 d0cfcfcf

This looks more like uncompressed YUV or another raw format. 
If you know the dimensions, you maybe can check using mplayer -rawvideo
option.

Anyway, it's surely no raw MPEG4 stream. That would have to start with 

000000 b0010000 01000003

because all startcodes are 0x000001** 

Also, the suffix .mp4 usually means MPEG4/Quicktime container format, not
a raw stream. Still, that would look different, too. 


gruel