Trouble with old .mov file

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MikeRichardson
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Trouble with old .mov file

Postby MikeRichardson » 13 Sep 2020 05:57

The file works fine in QuickTime 7 (on Mac OS X 10.13.6), and mpv. It's using the "Apple Graphics" codec "smc ", and PCM sound "twos". In VLC, there is no video at all, and the sound is all messed up.

(It does not work in QuickTime X on Mac OS X 11 Beta, due to the removed "legacy" codec. That Apple invented.)

VLC was tested on both Mac OS X 10.13.6 and 11 Beta.

At least the sound should work? Standard PCM type codec.

https://mikerichardson.name/tidbits/SampleMovie.mov
https://mikerichardson.name/tidbits/Sam ... esaved.mov (I resaved it using QuickTime 7. This version, the sound is still wrong, but differently wrong.)

I assume it also fails to play on other OSes, but if this is actually just a Mac only issue (which would be weird), then move to the Mac forum.

I can file a full bug report if that would help.

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QuadQuinn:Downloads mike$ mediainfo SampleMovie.mov General Complete name : SampleMovie.mov Format : QuickTime Format/Info : Original Apple specifications Format settings : Compressed header File size : 146 KiB Duration : 6 s 232 ms Overall bit rate : 192 kb/s Encoded date : UTC 1998-03-25 11:41:11 Tagged date : UTC 1998-03-25 11:41:11 Writing library : Apple QuickTime Copyright : ©Apple Computer, Inc. 1994-1998 Video ID : 2 Format : smc Codec ID : smc Duration : 6 s 232 ms Source duration : 5 s 900 ms Source_Duration_FirstFrame : 900 ms Source_Duration_LastFrame : 900 ms Bit rate : 87.3 kb/s Width : 206 pixels Height : 243 pixels Display aspect ratio : 0.848 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 10.000 FPS Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.174 Stream size : 66.0 KiB (45%) Source stream size : 76.7 KiB (53%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 1998-03-23 12:33:11 Tagged date : UTC 1998-03-25 11:41:11 Audio ID : 5 Format : PCM Format settings : Big / Signed Codec ID : twos Duration : 6 s 200 ms Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 88.2 kb/s Channel(s) : 1 channel Sampling rate : 11.025 kHz Bit depth : 8 bits Stream size : 66.8 KiB (46%) Language : English Encoded date : UTC 1998-03-25 01:14:09 Tagged date : UTC 1998-03-25 11:41:11

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Re: Trouble with old .mov file

Postby mederi » 14 Sep 2020 13:42

Audio works in older VLC version (tried 3.0.2). Video is black.


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