[MPlayer-users] Playback-Continuation on error of movies missing a couple percent of data

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:41:12PM +0100, Per Nordlöw wrote:
> I have a movie on my harddisk that lacks about one percent of its data
> distributed in a couple of coarse chunks. All media players, including
> mplayer, halts when it encounters these errors and resets pointer to
> beginning. I can however manually drag the cursor paste the error and
> continue playing from there. Can we somehow configure mplayer to try to
> continue playing the bitstream when encouters such an error. This should be
> possible, just look for some magic-bits/bytes of the next video frame. Why
> doesn't any movie player ẁork this way by default?

Uh, you're not even telling us what kind of file it is, that makes it
quite hard to help.
I once made some patches for AVI files to improve this, no idea if
I applied them though.
-demuxer lavf sometimes helps, too.