[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] make AVI -forceidx search inside chunks > 1 MB

[Alex Beregszaszi]

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 09:40 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> attached patch would change avi demuxer behaviour to not skip any AVI
> chunks > 1 MB but instead search inside those for stream data as well.
> This admittedly is somewhat hackish (esp. due to the fixed 1 MB limit),
> but it helps _a lot_ with playing partial or broken files, before
> -forceidx would usually just stop at the first damage, now it usually
> recognizes the whole file.
> Ok to apply? Should the 1 MB be made an option or changed to some other
> value?

What about a raw rgb stream?

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Alex