Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:921974.74384.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > > Dear fellow mplayer users, > > A friend recovered a file from a dying windows machine(hard drive > failure), and can not view it with any video player out there, Windows > Media, DivX, vlc and Quicktime. I told him that mplayer can view it, > but I lied to him, here is the proof. > > [olivares@localhost 28DC-C195]$ mplayer file000401.avi > MPlayer SVN-r29109-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team > > Playing file000401.avi. > libavformat file format detected. > LAVF: no audio or video headers found - broken file? > > > Exiting... (End of file) > > Now that mplayer can see the file and has told us that the file is > broken, is there any magical way to fix it so that the file can be > seen? > > Thanks in Advance, > > Antonio Here's something to try. http://thomas.mansi.free.fr/blog/spip.php?article12 "Read raw videos with MPlayer" mplayer -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=WIDTH:h=HEIGHT VIDEO _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users