[Mplayer-users] broken movie?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> i've got a broken asf movie. when mplayer reaches the broken bit, it
> terminates. if i fast-forward past it, the rest plays fine. the bad part is
> that if i don't ffwd in the right moment, i hit the bad spot and mplayer
> terminates.  worse yet, i must fast forward from the beginning of the movie,
> because for some reason if i use -ss, the seek bar osd doesn't disappear at
> all. isn't it possible to search for the next good chunk when the player hits
> a corrupted part of the video, instead of terminating?
> 
> also i have another broken movie, this time an avi. with it it is impossible
> to even skip past the broken section. when played with aviplay, though, the
> movie only skips at that point and then continues normally. i know that
> mplayer isn't avifile, but since avifile can do it, it is possible. on the
> other hand, avifile behaves much worse with the broken asf - it just states
> that the broken point is the end of the movie and there is no way to get past
> it. AFAIK, windoze media player stops the movie at such breaks, but you can
> still seek past it.
> 
> is there any solution to this?
yes, please upload these files to ftp://mplayer.dev.hu/MPlayer/incoming/
I'll check them and fix mplayer. MPlayer shouldn't stop/crash/etc with
broken files.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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