Video processing

[Chris Bier]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> I have some .ts video files that are just under 7 gb in size.  They're 1080p 
> HD, and nothing I own appears to want to work with them.  VLC and mplayer 
> both seem to freeze on the first frame, avidemux reports it's unable to 
> determine the aspect ratio after trying to index the file, and tovid's idvid 
> returns 
> 
> /usr/bin/idvid: line 261: 16#Stream: value too great for base (error token 
> is "16#Stream")
> 
> This is on an Athalon 2500 running at 1.8 Ghz with 512 M of ram.  What I'm 
> wondering is if I don't have enough ram to handle files this big, or if a 32b 
> processor/OS just isn't capable of it, or if the files themselves are 
> corrupt.  I have heard of people handling larger files with avidemux, so I 
> know it's possible.  Suggestions?

My vote is for not enough RAM, and corrupt video.

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