I noticed my mplayer plugin won't play some of the newer apple hd trailers.
Specifically, this site won't work.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney...esofnarnia/hd/


Anyone getting any luck with this?

Do any other linux plugins work for this? I really like mplayer for streaming video and would like to keep using it, if I could.


Okay, heres what I get when I try to play the file directly after I downloaded it.



Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.)
Playing chroniclesofnarnia-pre_h720p.mov.
ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
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MOV track #0: 457 chunks, 2737 samples
MOV: AVC decoder configuration record atom (43)!
MOV: Found unknown movie atom colr (18)!
Image size: 1280 x 720 (24 bpp)
Display size: 1280 x 720
Fourcc: avc1 Codec: 'H.264'
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MOV track #1: 668 chunks, 5352 samples
MOV: unable to determine audio samplerate, assuming 44.1kHz (got 0)
Audio bits: 16 chans: 3 rate: 44100
Audio extra header: len=2130706432 fcc=0x0
Fourcc: mp4a
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MOV track #2: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 2)
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MOV: longest streams: A: #1 (5352 samples) V: #0 (2737 samples)
VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x720 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
comments: Encoded and delivered by apple.com/trailers/
copyright: 2005 Walt Disney Pictures. All Rights Reserved
name: The Chronicles of Narnia
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

Having a fresh look at this problem myself. Your post made me realise that the problem wasn't just me doing a reinstall of mplayer that failed. I had had it playing quicktime previously. Only thing I can think of is to download and install the latest version of linux quicktime. Having another go now myself.

It doesn't sound like linux quicktime is going to much for me.

"Be aware of one thing: Quicktime for Linux won't read any of the movies you download from the internet. Quicktime is a wrapper for many different kinds of compression formats. What you knew as "Quicktime 4", "Quicktime 5", "Quicktime 6", are really different distributions of compression formats. The codecs we support are mainly uncompressed."

The new trailers at apple won't play. The current native quicktime plugins can't read the new quicktime format. Only thing to do is to wait and hope or try crossover office or whatever that wine product is.

I tried crossover office and it still doesn't work, sadly. With the current version of Crossover Office I can only go up to quicktime 6.5. I'm going to try copying some of files over from windows, but I still don't think it'll work.

I appear to have QT working for some movie trailers that ask for QT7 but not Chronicle of Narnia - here I just get a blank page not even one asking for plugins. Crossover 4.0 and wine using AppleQT7 bombed out initially so I didn't pursue error messages, but moved on.

I'm not entirely sure how I did this, all I can tell you is the versions I used. Haven't had time to properly check out how I did it. I followed the procedures set out in a SuSE-wiki for installation in SuSE9.3.
Basically install libraries, install dvd codec, install MPlayer and kaffeine, I also downloaded multimedia packages from their site as well as the ones recommended on packman.org for SuSE9.3. I also updated to the following packages manually before doing the installation.

libxine1-2.1.1-0.pm.0.i686.rpm
libquicktime-devel-0.9.4-1.pm.1.i586.rpm
libquicktime-0.9.8pre2.tar.gz

I think these ones are the important ones.

Please let me know how you go.

Cheers

I can get the video but no audio on ANY of the trailers. mplayerplug-in 3.11.

mplayerplug-in will work with the Apple HD trailers if you have current version of mplayer. mplayer 1.0pre7try[1,2,3] are not new enough. You must have mplayer CVS from at least Oct 2005. As for the audio problem, make sure you have a current mplayer and have compiled with a recent FAAD library as well.

SuSE users including 10.0 OSS might like to check the packman site packman.links2linux.org for the latest version of MPlayer, MPlayer-1.0pre7try3-1.i586.rpm which definitely allows you to play latest Apple stuff, providing you have all the necessary libraries installed.

i can't get them working:

$>mplayer http://movies.apple.com/trailers/ima...btn2_1080i.mov
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.


Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Connection refused
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing http://movies.apple.com/trailers/ima...btn2_1080i.mov.
Resolving movies.apple.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: movies.apple.com
Resolving movies.apple.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server movies.apple.com[212.170.238.82]:80 ...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Connected to server: movies.apple.com
Cache fill: 0.79% (2588 bytes) ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
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MOV track #0: 1 chunks, 0 samples
MOV: Found unsupported Gamma-Correction movie atom (12)!
Image size: 60 x 24 (24 bpp)
Display size: 60 x 24
Fourcc: jpeg Codec: 'Photo - JPEG'
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MOV: longest streams: A: #-1 (0 samples) V: #0 (1 samples)
VIDEO: [jpeg] 60x24 24bpp 15.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 60 x 24 (preferred csp: Planar 422P)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is 2.50:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Planar 422P to Planar YV12 using MMX2
VO: [xv] 60x24 => 60x24 Planar YV12
V: 0.0 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 0%

Exiting... (End of file)


any ideas?

As kdekorte already has said, these HD trailers require a version of mplayer that supports H.264. Currenly only the CVS version supports it. The mplayer 1.0pre7tryx versions do not.

ok, thank you, i'll try cvs version

If you had READ my post you would have realised that I named a much later version to the one you could not get to work! Secondly there is a problem with the link you quoted as it cannot be resolved as per YOUR output!

Some quick tests on the apple.com site again showed this version to be working just fine.

An apology might be nice.

mplayer does play h.264 and aac. I have the latest version of mplayer (mplayer-1.0-0.26.20060314.fc5) and mplayerplug-in (3.21). The only thing I must mention is that I could not play the h.264 videos with mplayerplug-in embeded mode. I had to add noembed=1 to $HOME/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf
and it looks great. I really hope more and more media adapts this format.

Oh btw thanks guys. There was even a cvs package available from livna. It works perfectly. Especially after I disabled that silly KDE sound system.