Example: http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/ka/aida_00.mov
In XP (latest patches), Quicktime plays the file well. It plays well with Media Player Classic too. But in VLC, I get a black screen, while the cursor moves to the right during the clip length. The behaviour is the same if I play the file locally from my hard drive, so it is not a connection issue. File info from VLC is:
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Stream 0
Codec: smc
Type: Video
Resolution: 248x248
Frame Rate: 15.00
Stream 1
Codec: subt
Type: Subtitle
General
Duration: 0:00:20
I tried 0.8.6a, 0.8.4a, 0.8.2, 0.8.0, and get the same behaviour. I even tried the nightly build from 5 January 2007, but I am not sure how to use because the interface does not look like the usual one. Drag & dropping the file to the build gives me error messages like "cannot find directory...", so I could not really test the latest build.
I saw a post pointing to https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/18477 How can I test this? Sorry, I don't have the intention to compile anything, I can test only executables / compiled builds.
Is there any setting I need to change to get this file playing correctly?
Any chance this will be corrected in a soon-to-come official release?
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