Bug#595452: mplayer: Fails to play recent Matroska (MKV) files: "Track 1 has been compressed with an unknown/unsupported compression algorithm (3)"

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Sun Sep 5 09:16:28 UTC 2010


On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:44:38PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> BTW, I can reproduce this error with rc4 by forcing the native mkv muxer
> with the opten '-demuxer mkv'.
> 
> This means that this bug is not fixed in rc4 at all, but just masked
> by using lavf by default!

Note that there is a patch pending for it in the MPlayer dev list
(and a few more as well). Unfortunately the patch submitter "disappeared"
and I would have preferred to let him apply himself.





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