[MPlayer-users] Broken avi file: "AVI: Missing video stream!?" video works, no audio though

[Da Rock]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 08:30 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 18/11/2008 alle 15.57 +1000, Da Rock ha scritto:
> > Sorry guys - I solved this myself.
> > 
> > I don't know why I didn't think of this before, or perhaps I was waiting
> > for a reminder... anyway I ended up using -tsprobe and -forceidx.
> > -forceidx didn't do much, but I had to set the -tsprobe too some stupid
> > amount (8192000) and hey! it suddenly found an audio stream.
> > 
> > The MV and AC errors have disappeared so far too (probably thanks to the
> > -forceidx).
> > 
> > Thanks for your patience guys.
> > 
> > 
> 
> -tsprobe has effect only on mpeg-ts streams, not on avi or  any other
> kind of file

The avi is simply a container for the ts. Ergo -tsprobe is useful in
this case. Thanks for the pointer though.