[MPlayer-users] Broken avi file: "AVI: Missing video stream!? " video works, no audio though

[Nico Sabbi]

On Wednesday 26 November 2008 06:25:57 Da Rock wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 10:23 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > On Monday 24 November 2008 10:15:19 Da Rock wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 08:30 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > > > Il giorno mar, 18/11/2008 alle 15.57 +1000, Da Rock ha 
scritto:
> > > > > Sorry guys - I solved this myself.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't know why I didn't think of this before, or perhaps
> > > > > I was waiting for a reminder... anyway I ended up using
> > > > > -tsprobe and -forceidx. -forceidx didn't do much, but I had
> > > > > to set the -tsprobe too some stupid amount (8192000) and
> > > > > hey! it suddenly found an audio stream.
> > > > >
> > > > > The MV and AC errors have disappeared so far too (probably
> > > > > thanks to the -forceidx).
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for your patience guys.
> > > >
> > > > -tsprobe has effect only on mpeg-ts streams, not on avi or 
> > > > any other kind of file
> > >
> > > The avi is simply a container for the ts. Ergo -tsprobe is
> > > useful in this case. Thanks for the pointer though.
> >
> > total nonsense
>
> To be honest I don't really care- it worked for me and fixed the
> problem. If anyone else has a similar problem (if they choose to do
> the job the same strange way I do) then this will more than likely
> help them too.
>
> I did initially respond in a civil manner, but comments such as
> this are neither warranted, nor useful. Something more constructive
> might have been more qualified here, such as why the statement is
> nonsense...
>


the AVI demuxer doesn't insert in the demuxing and decoding chain the
TS demuxer (which is the only component of mplayer that uses
 the -tsprobe parameter), for this reason I wrote that your statement
was nonsense.
In my opinion my assertion doesn't have anything incivil or offensive:
doesn't it sometimes happen to anyone saying some nonsense? 

And in case you wonder with what authority I say something about
-tsprobe: I wrote the TS demuxer