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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:30:20AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:16:28 (CEST), Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> For what specifically? fixing the native mkv muxer or switching the
> default?

There are some pending patches for the native mkv demuxer.

Diego