The problem is, mplayer aborts playing mpeg videos' with a so called missing marker bit.

Xine and VLC also claim about the missing marker bit, but nonetheless they play it.

MPlayer now can do this, too - with the patch sent to mplayer-dev-eng on
8th December 2004, Subject: [PATCH] missing marker bit

This goodbye sample is a cut of the first 5MB (of total 100MB) of a music video captured
from TV.