Re: How To Construct Xvid Header From Incomplete File

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Tesla 13 wrote:
> 
> Yes, after inputing the FPS, mplayer plays a while before crashing. Still 
> this is something since no other player managed to get a frame out of it. I 
> believe it is playing the key frames. Mencoder does not seem to be doing 
> anything useful with Bruno's suggestion. I added -idx as well. The output 
> file size keeps growing and growing. I will fiddle with other options (so 
> many!).

Did you pass the "-sb" option?  If you did and mplayer still needs a FPS
value, then it plays raw MPEG4 instead of AVI, which is more or less the
same as I described: It searches or MPEG-4 header start codes. But if
those are in the audio or AVI parts as well, it find false hits and can
crash after a while.

You could try using mplayer's -dumpvideo option and check if the resulting
stream.dump is recognized as anything. 

gruel