I have also dealt with this issue. If your source is playable with mplayer/mencoder and you have the hard drive space, I have found the following to at least let many more programs use the video.
mencoder -forceidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o new.avi source.avi Basically, this will leave the audio and video alone and build a new container (avi) around them with a proper index. I think the original Pinnacle software just concatenated a new avi header to the output stream for every GB of data (and very few programs will read a file like that). If your version of mplayer/mencoder won't read the file, try a different (perhaps older) version. For myself, the newest version that I've found that will read old files like yours is 1.0pre8. I hope this helps. - Peter --- Martin Samuelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:04:09 -0300 > Dennis Naerebout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do have a set of recorded MJPEG files recorded 7 years ago on > windows98 with > > pinnacle studio and a DC10plus The files play fine with gstreamer > only no other > > program seems to play them including lavplay. > > Ouch. I've been through something similar; some recording software will > produce really crappy files. > > > I checked the header of both files and found them quite a bit > different. I tried to > > edit some parts to see if it made any difference but no luck so far. > Lavplay > > always stops with the following error: **ERROR: [lavplay] Error > opening file.avi > > Yeah, you can't edit those blindly and get away with it. :) How much > work are you willing to put into this? You could always try to correct > the files manually, by checking and rechecking what should be where, > and put it there. The RIFF format (also known as "avi", but that's just > a special case) is pretty simple. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIFF > > > Is there any way I can convert the files so they will be playable in > linux. > > I am intending to use them for editing in cinelerra. > > Not even mplayer is able to play them? With any luck, it's just a > matter of inserting a better FourCC in the header. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FourCC > > The FourCC used by lavrec is MJPG. > > /Sam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Mjpeg-users mailing list > Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
