Bug#728204: mplayer2: playback of .m4a files produces funny time information display

[Dominik George]

Package: mplayer2
Version: 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2
Severity: normal

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When playing back .m4a files (downloaded from iTunes some time ago), I
see a funny effect with playback/total time information.

mplayer opens an X window displaying the album artwork and, as per my
configuration, an OSD showing playback time and total duration of the
stream.

This OSD correctly displays the song as being 00:03:43 long, however,
the playback time remains at 0:00:00.

On the other hand, on the console, the stream length is displayd as ??
seconds, but the playback time is incremented and displayed correctly -
although this only happens in seconds, whereas for other file formats,
both decimal seconds and h:mm:ss is shown on the console.

This raises several questions:

 - Why does the OSD know the duration, while the conolse says it
   doesn't?
 - Why does the console show playback time, while the OSD has no idea?
 - Why isn't mplayer able to determine the h:mm:ss format while it knows
   the playback time in decimal seconds quite well, *and* can do so in
   the OSD for the track duration?

Cheers,
Nik

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh

Versions of packages mplayer2 depends on:
ii  liba52-0.7.4                      0.7.4-16
ii  libasound2                        1.0.27.2-3
ii  libass4                           0.10.1-3
ii  libavcodec54                      6:9.10-1
ii  libavformat54                     6:9.10-1
ii  libavresample1                    6:9.10-1
ii  libavutil52                       6:9.10-1
ii  libbluray1                        1:0.4.0-1
ii  libbs2b0                          3.1.0+dfsg-2
ii  libc6                             2.17-93
ii  libcaca0                          0.99.beta18-1
ii  libcdio-cdda1                     0.83-4
ii  libcdio-paranoia1                 0.83-4
ii  libcdio13                         0.83-4
ii  libdca0                           0.0.5-6
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9                 1.2.10.0-5
ii  libdv4                            1.0.0-6
ii  libdvdnav4                        4.2.0+20130225-3
ii  libdvdread4                       4.2.0+20130219-2
ii  libenca0                          1.15-1
ii  libfaad2                          2.7-8
ii  libgif4                           4.1.6-10
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]          9.2.2-1
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116]  1.9.9.5+20130622git7de15e7a-1
ii  libjpeg8                          8d-1
ii  liblcms2-2                        2.2+git20110628-2.3
ii  liblircclient0                    0.9.0~pre1-1
ii  libmad0                           0.15.1b-8
ii  libmng1                           1.0.10-3
ii  libmpg123-0                       1.16.0-1
ii  libncurses5                       5.9+20130608-1
ii  libogg0                           1.3.1-1
ii  libpng12-0                        1.2.49-5
ii  libpostproc52                     6:0.git20120821-4
ii  libpulse0                         4.0-6+b1
ii  libquvi7                          0.4.1-2
ii  libsdl1.2debian                   1.2.15-8
ii  libsmbclient                      2:4.0.10+dfsg-3
ii  libspeex1                         1.2~rc1.1-1
ii  libswscale2                       6:9.10-1
ii  libtheora0                        1.1.1+dfsg.1-3.1
ii  libtinfo5                         5.9+20130608-1
ii  libvdpau1                         0.7-1
ii  libvorbis0a                       1.3.2-1.3
ii  libx11-6                          2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxext6                          2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxinerama1                      2:1.1.3-1
ii  libxss1                           1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxv1                            2:1.0.9-1
ii  libxvidcore4                      2:1.3.2-9
ii  libxxf86vm1                       1:1.1.3-1
ii  zlib1g                            1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

mplayer2 recommends no packages.

mplayer2 suggests no packages.

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