[FFmpeg-user] Issues with avi file

[littlebat]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:09:58 +0300
Andrei Petru Mura <mapandrei at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to convert an AVI file from a format that I don't have
> codecs for to a usable one using ffmpeg. This is a resulted file from
> a GeoVision camera recording. On their site you will find codecs for
> Windows only, not for Linux. (I'm running a Linux OS).
> When I'm trying to watch this video with VLC, I get this error:
> 
> "No suitable decoder module:
> 
> VLC does not support the audio or video format "GAVC". Unfortunately
> there is no way for you to fix this."
> 
> 
> I tried to convert this file using ffmpeg, but without any results.
> Bellow is what I tried and the output. (I'm a very new one to codecs,
> video formats and convertion, and especially to ffmpeg. So please
> excuse me if I'm not clear in some of my explanations. Thanks)
> 
> So, the conversion trial:
> 
> 
> ./bin/ffmpeg -i /path/to/my/file.avi -c:v libxvid output.avi
> 
> 
> The output is:
> 
> 
> ffmpeg version git-2013-10-10-65c2fe7 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the
> FFmpeg developers
> 
...
> 
> [avi @ 0xa670d40] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0
> (Video: none (GAVC / 0x43564147), 1920x1080): unknown codec

No suitable decoder in FFMpeg yet.

Try play it with mplayer, if it can't work, try install mplayer's
binary codecs:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20110131.tar.bz2
and play it again.

If it works, maybe you can convert your file using mencoder currently.