[MPlayer-users] [BUG] Avi file can only be watched with -forceidx

[Corey Hickey]

陆然 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I uploaded a sample to 
> 
> ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu:/MPlayer/incoming/broken_image.avi
> 
> MPlayer gives a lot of error when playing this video with no special flags, 
> the weird thing is this video could be cured with -forceidx, looks like it 
> has a broken index and somehow it affected demuxing or decoding. This video 
> is ok even with windows media player ;).

It seems this is a bug in MPlayer's native AVI demuxer. Either that or
the file is too broken somehow. Anyway, it works fine with '-demuxer lavf'.

-Corey