I've in the past noticed a few issues playing such videos on a Windows 7
machine using CCCP or K-Lite codecs. The solution I've figured out is to
"normalise" them by transcoding them to MP4 using ffmpeg/avconv.

-Manoj.C

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Russell Coker via luv-main <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Files produced by python-iview give errors like the following when I try to
> play them with mplayer.  Anyone have suggestions for how to deal with it?
> The
> files produced last year were ok but it seems that something changed at the
> ABC so files downloaded this year don't work.
>
> $ mplayer IN1501H016S00MA1D1_20171216030611_650000.flv
> MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
> do_connect: could not connect to socket
> connect: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
> control.
>
> Playing IN1501H016S00MA1D1_20171216030611_650000.flv.
> libavformat version 57.83.100 (external)
> libavformat file format detected.
> LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed
> LAVF: no audio or video headers found - broken file?
> libavformat file format detected.
> LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed
> LAVF: no audio or video headers found - broken file?
>
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