[MPlayer-users] Headerless RPZA MOV file

Sycotic Smith sycotic at linuxmail.org
Wed Dec 4 01:04:02 CET 2002


> > Does it mean i have to download whole movie only to see if i can recode 
> > it with mencoder? :-/
> 
> You might be able to get away with this. This is loosely based on the
> numbers you gave earlier; you'll probably have to adjust them some.
> Also, filenames will need to be changed to protect the innocent.
> 
> 0. Make a copy of what you have. We don't want to mess something up.
> 
> 1. Add a whole lot of zero data, to somewhere _near_ the full size of
> the original file.
> $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1184 >> file.mov
> 
> 3. Download the rest of the file.
> $ wget -c http://somewhere/file.mov
> 
> Good luck. If the file is playable after this madness, you know it'll
> work. If it doesn't, well.... ;)
> 
> -Corey

Is it just me, or did you intentionally 'forget' to give us step 2? ;)
/S. Smith
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