[MPlayer-advusers] mplayer aborts with -nosound

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Saturday 09 February 2008 03:11:37 Bob Bell ha scritto:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:37:33PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > On Friday 08 February 2008 03:25:34 Bob Bell wrote:
> > > Thank you in advance.  I look forward to working with you to
> > > resolve this issue!
> > 
> > 
> > I'll check your patch tonight or tomorrow
> 
> Hmm, well, don't expect too much.  It's a "gets me by for now" type of
> thing, but I doubt it's the right solution.
> 
> The algorithmic change I made was: if the calculated position is over
> 90% of the way through (arbitrarily picked to represent "close to the
> end but not at the end"), then start from the middle of the file instead
> and use the normal correction steps to arrive at the right position.
> 
> It does seem to work, but it's pretty yucky.  Hopefully someone with
> more knowledge of the code can make something a little nicer.
> 

it's not a correct approach, but I can't blame you: the whole file
is overwhelmingly ill-logic
An easier fix consists in raising TIMESTAMP_PROBE_LEN a bit
(1M for example). Does it work?