[GEM-dev] Gem says quicktime ok, then disagrees with itself

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Hi,

Have you tried to rename it to dv.dv (other extension !)
Maybe it is not a quicktime file after all.

Guenter


On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, B. Bogart wrote:

> Hey again,
>
> Well after a LOT more digging I found some things out. First off I
> realised that mplayer was decoding my DV MOV with ffmpeg. Good news, so
> I messed with ffplay some more and finally got it to load my MOV the
> same as totem & mplayer (using ffmpeg).
>
> So the issue seems to be that ffmpeg does not know what kind of file it
> is, but knows how to decode it.
>
> ffplay dv.mov
>
> gives:
>
> unkown format
>
> ffplay -f dv dv.mov
>
> Works!!!
>
> So we need to force ffmpeg to try a certain codec in this case... Is
> this possible from inside Gem? Clearly ffmpeg is much better at decoding
> than recognizing formats, could there be a manual mode to specify the
> codec manually to pix_film ? Or is there some other library (code from
> mplayer?) that actually IS good at recognizing formats? mplayer actually
> tries to load the DV file with qdv.dll but since it is not on my system
> it gives up and tries ffmpeg, and clearly tells it what format to expect.
>
> So I feel much closer to loading this file in Gem, what do I need to do
> to get it to actually work? (now that it is clear that ffmpeg will play
> it).
>
> Thanks.
>
> B>
>
>
>
> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> > B. Bogart wrote:
> >
> >
> > i think i have already said this before, but i have to admit (again)
> > that i haven't been able to open _any_ video with FFMPEG (i/o error).
> > probably making this work would help....
> >
> >
> > mfg.asdr.
> > IOhannes
> >
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