h264 in MOV container and MediaPlayer = blackness

[miqlas]

I try to play the 9 trailer ( ​http://movies.apple.com/movies/focus_features/9/9-tsr_h1080p.mov ) under Haiku with MediaPlayer and with VLC. VLC can play slowly on my old PC, it have picture and music, but MediaPlayer don't show the picture, only an big black box, and i don't hear the music.

[miqlas]

Screenshoot about the big silent blackness.

[miqlas]

MediaPlayer log

[dlmcpaul]

The mov_reader does not handle h264 mov files yet.

[phoudoin]

Off topic, but "9" while a good movie is *not* for kids. I say that because when I watched it some mother though it was: his 5 old son cries proved her wrong.

Back to topic, .mov and .mp4 files are handled the same way here, aka handed to our mov_reader, right?

[dlmcpaul]

no we have seperate mp4 reader and mov reader.

There are distinct diferences between the 2 formats even though mp4 is based on mov. I didn't want to write special case code to handle the differences and I thought the 2 formats would either move apart as features were added to each format or even that apple would switch to mp4 and drop mov.

mp4 however decided to complicate the format by adding 3gp which is mp4 less some bits and added some other bits.

Apple decided to just take just about everything from mp4 to the point where mov files are almost the same as mp4 now except for the mov backward compatable bits.

So anyway to handle h264 in mov I have to port the avcC box, the AAC box and the AC3 box handling over to mov and figure out why the new mov files don't want to read the chunks properly.

[diver]

Works ok in hrev43989, closing.