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I have an avi file that seems to be not conventionally encoded : all the audio are at the beginning of the file and video data are at end.

vlc cant catch the video stream and play only audio :/
(work perfectly on local hard drive)

as it's streamed over a fast gigabit network, i was thinking about increasing the buffer in order to fit everything in memory, so vlc would get the required amount of audio and video frames to play the file correctly. But the settings seems to be capped at 60 seconds.

what would be the solution to play this kind of file using http ?


thanks in advance

Remux the file so it'll be interleaved.

of course but that's not the solution i was expecting

to be more precise about the context, it's in a french stb (freebox) that is split in two devices
i was was thinking about a solution without modifying the file that would be usable for everyone

as vlc is able to read successfully this file locally on a computer, can't the process be extended to http ?