compbrain.net » avi http://compbrain.net A collection of occasional thoughts Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:06:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Fix a Broken AVI Seek Table/Index http://compbrain.net/archives/18 http://compbrain.net/archives/18#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:21:42 +0000 Will http://compbrain.net/?p=18 More→]]> Recently I was given a video by a friend in AVI format that caused trouble when playing it on my Neuros OSD. When I watched the video on my laptop with mplayer, everything was fine, but when you tried to seek with the Neuros it reported a video 16 minutes in length instead of the full hour it should have been. Poking around the internet I found the following solution: Use mencoder to rebuild the AVI index, and write it out to a new copy of the video.


$ mencoder -forceidx input.avi -o output.avi -oac copy -ovc copy
$ mv output.avi input.avi

After that, the new input.avi should be playable, and seeking should work properly again.

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