[MPlayer-users] Very Bad avi file

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:07:03 +0100 (CET),
Horv-Báth István wrote:
> 
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > > > 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?

How about option -sb (if the movie isn't too big)?