[MPlayer-users] Playing/encoding stops

[Lobster]

On 15/12/2010 10:02 p.m., Uwe Pross wrote:
>> Datum: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:42:49 +0100
>> Von: "Reimar Döffinger"<Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>:
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:29:09PM +0100, Uwe Pross wrote:
>>> I have got an avi file which causes mplayer and mencoder to stop
>> playing/encoding. When I skip the problem spot inside the file I can watch the
>> movie till the end. But if mplayer tries to decode the the frame it quits. Is
>> there a way to ignore such errors? Or maybe there is another way to
>> reencode this file.
>>
>> Not sure about this case, but -demuxer lavf usually is more resilient for
>> broken AVI files.
> Not in this case :-( It still stops.
>
> Is there a way to start encoding from a certain point in the source file? If so I could reencode to two files and merge them afterwarts. For example if frame 2032 is the problem:
>
> # encoding up to the problem
> mencoder movie.avi -end_point 2031 -o part1.avi
>
> # encoding after the problem
> mencoder movie.avi -start_point 2033 -o part2.avi
>
> Cheers, Uwe

Your source file is a MKV not AVI,

If I was you I would try to remux the file with say mkvmerge or similar.