[MPlayer-users] mplayer with really big avi movie

[RC]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:56:25 +0800
陆然 <hephooey at gmail.com> wrote:

> look for the answer in the  source code, I found that the avi demux
> read the a dword value as the endpos  of the movie, and the movie
> ended at the exact pos when playing with mplayer. 

You might try -demuxer 35

Is mplayer exiting normally (EOF) or is it crashing in one way or
another?

Are you using a CVS snapshot, or 1.0pre7?

> even seek in the file, while mplayer just generated a error "you 
> cannot seek in raw avi file" something like that. 

The verbose output would help shed some light on this, as always.

You can also try -forceidx or -noidx.

> Does this large file problem have some workaround, or it's a general
> problem  of mplayer, or I just encounted a bad file?

It could be all three of the above...