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Have you tried the vlc player?
Are your apps updated especially mplayer/ffmpeg/vlc/
Mplayer and vlc should be able to play this type of file quite easily if your system has the codecs. You can check by typing:
Code:
mencoder -ovc help
Available codecs:
copy - frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn't work with filters.
frameno - special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS.
raw - uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format explicitly.
nuv - nuppel video
lavc - libavcodec codecs - best quality!
libdv - DV encoding with libdv v0.9.5
xvid - XviD encoding
x264 - H.264 encoding
mencoder -oac help
Available codecs:
copy - frame copy, without re-encoding (useful for AC3)
pcm - uncompressed PCM audio
mp3lame - cbr/abr/vbr MP3 using libmp3lame
lavc - FFmpeg audio encoder (MP2, AC3, ...)
twolame - Twolame MP2 audio encoder
faac - FAAC AAC audio encoder
OR
Code:
ffmpeg -formats | egrep -i 'avi|ac3'
DE ac3 raw AC-3
DE avi AVI (Audio Video Interleaved)
DE eac3 raw E-AC-3
If you have the codecs in bold, the video should play. If not, the video is either corrupted, DRM protected or was created with some other encoder program with a proprietary codec. Just my guess.
PS: Can you share the download link of this video if known?
that looks to me like a correct AVI container, including correct stream IDs, but the payload, i.e. the video stream itself is garbled. Maybe someone took a file that is something else, and told VirtualDub to multiplex it into a video file. That could be a new way of sharing potentially offending files without making them too obvious.
Try to change the file format from AVI to MP4, MOV etc. with a trustworthy converter. Hope this will help you to play the file. But if this methods doesn’t work then the last option left with you is to use a repair tool. Use AVI Repair Tool to play your corrupt or damage video file. http://avi.filerepairtool.net/blog/f...oken-avi-file/
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