[MPlayer-users] Very Bad avi file

[Horváth István]

> > > > hy guys!
> > > >
> > > > i have a very bad avi file, which is a movie (the man in the iron mask),
> > > > it's length is: 691462474, the file is unplayable under winblows, but of
> > > > course is playeable with mplayer under linux!
> > > >
> > > > but unfortunately mplayer says that it is a raw avi stream therefore i
> > > > used the -idx tag to rebuild the index, and it stops after 40% :((
> > > >
> > > > with:
> > > > mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy infile.avi -o outfile.avi
> > > > stops at the same position :((
> > >
> > > Try mencoder with -noidx.
> > >
> > > Rich
> >
> > did not helped :((( it stops at the same position!
>
> The file is probably seriously damaged there, then. Try ffmpeg
> instead:
>
> ffmpeg -i infile.avi -acodec copy -vcodec copy -o outfile.avi
>
> It seems ffmpeg is much more fault tolerant. The resulting file will
> be a noninterleaved (broken!) avi, s you should subsequently run
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy to interleave and regenerate index. Good
> luck!

thank you, it helped! but unfortunately for the 1st part of the movie! :(

with 2nd it stop in the middle of the movie (at 47176th after some errors)

do you know a much better error concealment? or can ffmpeg just skip some
bad frames?

thank for help!