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 <luv-main@luv.asn.au> 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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