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

[Reinhard Tartler]

retitle 595452 1.0rc3 native mkv demuxer fails to decode some files
reopen 595452
found 595452 2:1.0~rc4~try1.dsfg1-1
thanks

> I can confirm that mplayer 2:1.0~rc4~try1.dsfg1-1 from experimental
> fixes this bug.

excellent.

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!

> ffplay from unstable, with ffmpeg from unstable, seems to play the file
> just fine.

this just confirms that libavformat is able to decode this properly

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4