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Broken video
by Francois on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @16:16

Is it just me or is the video broken? mplayer complains about it and won't display it properly.

Would an audio-only version be available somewhere at least?

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Re: Broken video
by Anonymous on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @19:13

The problem is that the videos are in Theora, which just plain never works. In some videos the picture freezes for tens of seconds while the audio keeps going, in others you get stutter for quite a long time (not a bug in the player but in the video stream, you can fast forward past the erroneous parts). Something as simple as displaying the length of the video is horribly broken. It always displays a total length of 59 hours 32 minutes and 16 seconds or something like that. This happens in MPlayer, Kaffeine, VLC, Xine, etc.

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Re: Broken video
by redeeman on Thursday 12/Jul/2007, @00:35

Never works ey? then how come all the streams i've seen has always worked perfectly? oh in fact i even have lots of them saved to my disk, and big surprise: they STILL work? what a fantastic miracle for something that "just plain never works", i guess i must be special, seeing as though im able to compile a totally standard mplayer/ffmpeg/xine that is able to play them..

hail me!!!!!

or wait, perhaps im not special, and theora actually works, but you are doing something so weird i can not even think up what? just a few things to consider...

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Re: Broken video
by Sutoka on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @13:40

The video seems to work perfectly fine for me the volume is quite low (in Kaffeine using the Xine engine)

Kaffeine version is 0.8.4 and Xine version 1.1.7 on Suse 10.2 (I think with xinelib from packman repository).

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Re: Broken video
by Sutoka on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @17:22

After watching from beginning to end I noticed that the picture does freeze every now and then for a few seconds at a time, though the audio never has any problems. Maybe a buggy encoder?

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