[MEncoder-users] Broken AVI files???

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 07 February 2005 at 06:40, Charles Wilcox wrote:
> I copied about 14 DVDs recently, and only two of them played by default.
> 
> Using your suggestion of binary alteration worked for one of the "sick" 
> AVI files.
> 
> So, do the MPlayer developers know about this bug?  Is it 'mencoder' code, 
> or 'xvid' code?

AFAIR it's been fixed in CVS. It'd appear that Windows demuxers try to
read and parse parts of AVI headers that are not supposed to contain any
significant data, so MEncoder simply did not fill them. Now they're filled
with zeros.

R.

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