On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Pete Biggs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >
>> With further investigation, the problem does indeed seem to be in the
>> file.  If I copy the file to another directory, it gets bigger by about
>> a meg.  I can attach that copy to a message without problems whereas the
>> original will lock up evolution.
>
> That sounds like a low level file corruption - look in /var/log/messages
> (or its equivalent on your system) to see if there are any issues with
> the disk itself - if that's OK, run fsck on the partition (from a live
> distro if possible, the partition needs to be unmounted).  Normal
> disclaimers apply: back up your data, I'm not responsible for anything.

Another alternative is to run the file through a video conversion
utility (for example ffmpeg).
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