[MPlayer-users] BUG?: Video stream not found in AVI

[Corey Hickey]

J P Collomosse wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Since that initial bug query in January I tried several upgrades to more 
> recent versions of mplayer (as recommended), but none of these have yet 
> played an uncompressed AVI file for me :-( 
> These video files originate from Matlab for Linux 
> (http://www.mathworks.com), perhaps there's a fault in the way it writes 
> them?  I would be interested to know if anyone else has managed to play 
> such files using mplayer.
> 
> I'm now running what I believe to be release 0.90 which Corey refers to in 
> his recent reply. I installed this as a binary RPM from 
> http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/ 
> (linked from http://www.mplayerhq.hu)
> The site specifies the compiler etc. they used to build this mplayer.  I'm 
> using Redhat 7.2, over AMD Duron 1Ghz.
> 
> Any advice on resolving this problem would be gratefully received!
> My latest failure report is attached... I can supply video files to 
> reproduce this error if it will help in producing a bug fix.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> John Collomosse (jpc at cs.bath.ac.uk)
> 

Ok, now that you're using a recent version, I would recommend following
the instructions in DOCS/bugreports.html to upload a sample file to the
mplayer ftp server.

-Corey