[MPlayer-users] Mplayer Playing But Mencoder Is Not Extracting

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 07:35:48AM -0700, x wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have one mpeg4 file with no avi header. Simple
> invocation does of mplayer does not play it and
> requires I specify FPS.
> 
> After specifying FPS it plays it for about 5 minutes
> and crashes. -bs does not do anything useful to
> forward it. But when I specify -ss, I am able to start
> it after the crash point. It crashes after a while
> again. By using -ss 5-6 times to start it after crash
> points, I am able to view most of the file.
> 
> I would like to extract this file but mencoder -oac
> copy -ovc copy does not do anything useful. I tried
> few other options like -idx, -forceidx, etc but no
> success. I also output a .dump file but that file is
> the same as the original file (useless).
> 
> No player except mplayer manages to view a frame out
> of it (Thanks for this great player, I wish I had
> known it earlier). Repair tools (vdub, nandub, etc.)
> are useless. I tried all.
> 
> Any ideas how I can extract and save this file? Which
> options do I need to use?

You could start by showing us the command lines that failed and the
mencoder output for those command lines...

Rich