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

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 24 November 2008 10:15:19 Da Rock wrote:
> 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.
>

total nonsense