[MPlayer-users] "Cannot seek backward in linear streams!" / Windows / Ulead capture

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:36:51PM +0200, Csaba Hal?sz wrote:
> On 4/24/07, Joseph <remid0d0s0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems that it doesn't know how long the stream actually is. Is
> > there a command line option to tell it "just go to the end of the
> > (AVI) file no matter what you think it is"?
> >
> > Ideas?
> 
> Have you tried -forceidx? Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with
> your problem but I always try that if I suspect something wrong with
> the avi.

Actually, I'd suggest -noidx, it sounds similar to what happens when
programs write out broken AVI indexes. -demuxer lavf is always worth a
try, too.
Otherwise we need a sample file.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger