[x264-devel] x264 endian bug?

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Martin Liebscher
<martin_liebscher at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using x264 on the PowerPC architecture. The encoded mp4's are
> playable on this architecture (e.g. using mplayer). However the
> attempt to play this files on x86 machines fails. Mplayer complains
> about corrupted headers in the video stream (also other players
> refuse to show up the videostream of the file).
>
> I tryied a recent svn snapshot and also various older revisons (also
> binaries provided by the os distribution).
>
> I assume that this might be an endian bug but I was wondering that
> nobody else experienced this effect...
>
> Can anyone confirm that this x264 created files depend on the
> endianess of the system?
>
> Regards, Martin.

If the files will play on your machine but not x86, it would have to
be a bug in the decoder as well that just happened to work the same
way as the encoder bug.

Have you tried a container other than mp4?  It could be a gpac bug.

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