[MPlayer-users] Cannot read an avi file (SIPP format?)

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:18:20AM +0200, Guillaume wrote:
> On a side note, I tried some other things to have it playing properly:
> I manually edited the video file in hexa to replace the string SIPP by
> xvid. Doing that made the video perfect with the current ubuntu
> mplayer (MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3): fluid, no dropped
> frame, no verbosity.

This sounds like one of the Xvid bug-workarounds need to be enabled in the
decoder. I think it is possible to force them with some -lavfdopts option
for testing to figure out which it is.
Possibly related to packed B-frames?