[FFmpeg-user] Help recovering video of cherished moment

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2016-12-17 19:05 GMT+01:00 PAUL Kirchhoffer <PKIRCHHOFFER at msn.com>:

> - The MPlayer documentation indicated the codec was supported and I
> finally succeeded in getting Mplayer running on a 32-bit Ubuntu virtualbox.

Please test with an MPlayer Windows binary:
It may never have been tested on Linux, I just tested with MPlayer from 2008
when the relevant code was added and it did not work either on Linux.

> I think I succeeded in getting Mplayer to use the correct codec but I got
> no video.

> The videos have been copied to many different hard drives over the
> years - maybe they are corrupt.

This is not very likely.

Carl Eugen