[MPlayer-users] Very Bad avi file

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:20:47PM +0100, Horváth István wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hy guys!
> 
> i have a very bad avi file, which is a movie (the man in the iron mask),
> it's length is: 691462474, the file is unplayable under winblows, but of
> course is playeable with mplayer under linux!
> 
> but unfortunately mplayer says that it is a raw avi stream therefore i
> used the -idx tag to rebuild the index, and it stops after 40% :((
> 
> with:
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy infile.avi -o outfile.avi
> stops at the same position :((

Try mencoder with -noidx.

Rich