[Mplayer-dev-eng] better playback of damaged files

[Arpi]

Hi,

> i might have an idea on how to improve the playback of damaged files.
> 
> currently mplayer exits when reaching a damaged part it can't interpret and
> to see the remaining part of the file one has to skip after the damaged
> part. so instead of exiting instantly mplayer could compare the position in
> the file (the amount of bytes played) with the actual length of the file
> and, if they differ, try to synchronize to a position shortly after, so
> playback could continue.
> 
> would this work?
heh.
currently it plays all damaegd files if possible.
if they are seriously broken, it will crash/exit. it only occurs for avi
files, if they has no index and has broken chunks.
(it is not possible to re-sync broken avi file, without making some brute-force
skip-1-byte-and-try-again-and-check-for-crash)

if you have other file (mpeg/asf) causing mplayer to exit/crash, read
DOCS/bugreports.html and report it, it is a bug.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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