Hello, On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Towncat <towncat.towncat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I encoded some home videos with iMovie under Mac OSX. I used the "Export > using QuickTime" feature, Movie to MPEG-4, "video format" H.264, bitrate > 2000, framerate 25, keyframe: automatic (btw., what would be a reasonable > number here?), optimized for CD/DVD-ROM. > > The resulting clips play nicely under MacOSX's QuickTime player (what would > you expect...? :-) ), but when I try to play them with mplayer either under > Mac or Linux, I get the error "first frame is no keyframe". The clip is > played, but the first few seconds are garbled. > > Is there an option for mplayer playback to avoid this, or maybe an encoding > option in iMovie I might try? > > (I also tried the "MPEG-4 Improved" "video format", and that did not cause > the same error ("video format" in iMovie I guess is used to mean "codec"). Could you please upload a 5-10 seconds samples? Guillaume -- Only a very small fraction of our DNA does anything; the rest is all comments and ifdefs. Calvin Trillin - "Health food makes me sick." _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users