[xine-user] Problems playing some movies...

[Rainer H. <ra...@ha...>]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
> > What I am slightly worried about is that I get some movies from a friend
> > which are in some exotic format. I am not having enough knowledge to
> > find out what is done within the file, but it must be some kind of "new"
> > encoding of the video stream, using less space.
> > (Well the whole file is an mpeg1 video, but using mp3 instead of mp2, so
> > it is surely unusual, but I would like to view this movie as movie, and
> > not as a slide show...
>
> Hmmm, that sounds just like standard MPEG audio/video. (mp3 is just
> another MPEG layer than mp2, but covered by the 'MPEG specs and, of
> course, supported by xine.
>
> > Is somebody here who can find out (or tell me how to do that) ...
> > a.) which video format is used
>
> Not without a sample. You could put such a stream on some web server and
> then post the URL here.

Ok. I have placed a 6MB snipped of such a file onto my web server. It will be
deleted automatically on 2002-10-18 16:12, so all people who want to have a
look on it should download it soon enough.

Here is the URL:  http://www.hantsch.co.at/ufo-26-1.mpg

                  Filesize: Exactly 6000000 Bytes, the first junk from
                  the file, brutally cutted off, so the ending is surely
                  damaged...


What is the problem:
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When I try to play this file on my computer (AMD Duron 700 MHz, 512MB RAM),
the audio plays fine. Though, the video is extremely "skippy". I see a series
of short movie sequences, then a lot is skipped, then again a sequence, a
skip,...

My questions:
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a.) What strange file format is this?

b.) Can it be "normalized" with transcode, so that it can be smoothly viewed?
    (I am not familiar with transcode, but I have the feeling that - if any -
    transcode will be able to do that...)


mfg

  Ing. Rainer Hantsch

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