[MPlayer-users] can't seek through complete avi file (1.9G) - any hints?

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:33:44 +0100
Marcus Blomenkamp <Marcus.Blomenkamp at epost.de> wrote:

> I do have a really huge divx (1924MB, 2h35m, AC3 sound) which plays 
> fine. However If I seek after ~1h37m, mplayer stops with:
> 
> '*** free_stream() called ***'
> 'Exiting... (End of file)'
> 
> I've tried splitting into 700M chunks by using transcode-0.6pre2 to no 
> effort. The first chunk is created fine (698M) but the next chunk grows 
> until end-of-source (1.2G). Mplayer shows same phenomenom on the second 
>   chunk: simple playback ok, seeking fails (after 0h10m).
> 
> Anybody any hints? Mencoder's pass-through didn't help either :-(

Could be a broken file, use -idx or -forceidx

		Attila Kinali

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