On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:41:12PM +0100, Per Nordl?w wrote: > I have a movie on my harddisk that lacks about one percent of its data > distributed in a couple of coarse chunks. All media players, including > mplayer, halts when it encounters these errors and resets pointer to > beginning. I can however manually drag the cursor paste the error and > continue playing from there. Can we somehow configure mplayer to try to > continue playing the bitstream when encouters such an error. This should be > possible, just look for some magic-bits/bytes of the next video frame. Why > doesn't any movie player ?ork this way by default? Uh, you're not even telling us what kind of file it is, that makes it quite hard to help. I once made some patches for AVI files to improve this, no idea if I applied them though. -demuxer lavf sometimes helps, too.
