[MPlayer-users] How to fix AVIs recorded by 0.90-pre4?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:55:12PM +0100, Tomas Telensky wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I could not identify and name this bug and even not find in Changelog, but
> it is already fixed in 0.90-pre10. I have encoded several AVIs with mencoder
> 0.90-pre4. They play perfectly with mplayer, but windows play them more
> quickly. If I record them with mencoder 0.90-pre10 (the same way),
> everything is OK. There must have been some bugfix between these versions,
> and some of you probably know which bug I mean. But I would also like to fix
> my AVIs! Does anyone know how to do it? Is there any utility to fix them?
> 
> I've made a little tests of this bug. The problem is in the audio stream
> (if I recode the audio stream, windows play it the right way). I
> used mp3lame codec for encoding audio, in both cases it was lame-3.92.
> This fact brings me to the thought that there is something wrong with the
> headers, not in the stream itself.
> 
> I can send more details of it (also the AVIs), if you find it useful.

Try mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy yourfile.avi -o fixed.avi

That might fix it.

Rich