[MPlayer-users] Mplayer can't find video in (.flv) file

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:57:46PM -0700, Need Help wrote:
> --- Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> 
> > Byte 4 of this file is 4, which indicates an audio-only file (0
> > means older/broken format, 1 means video-only, 5 means audio and
> > video), so this is just a broken file (as far as such a thing exists
> > with and undocumented format).
> > You can use e.g. attached patch though.
> 
> That worked perfectly. THANKS! Will that patch eventually
> make it into mplayer, or will I need to maintain it myself?

It should be fixed in latest FFmpeg SVN already, though in a different
way.