Playback problems when manually skipping

[vanquish42]

When I play a video in VLC and skip forward with the slider, the video stops playing and the video window closes in VLC, leaving only the controls. I had only had this problem when playing a .flv file.

However, I am now having it with a .mp4 file; the .mp4 video plays normally if undisturbed, but when I skip forward with the slider to a point towards it's end, the video stops playing and the video window closes. If I skip forward to a point towards it's beginning, the video, weirdly enough, plays, normally. The video only stops if I skip to a point towards its end. I tried the video in Quicktime and had the same problem, except the video window didn't close as in VLC, it just froze, pixelated.

Here is the information on the video in question:

Stream 0
-Codec: mp4v
-Resolution: 320x240
-Frame Rate: 29.970029

Stream 1
-Codec: mp4a
-Type: Audio
-Channels: 2
-Sample Rate: 48000Hz
-Bit per sample: 16
-Bitrate: 1536 kb/s

Thanks.

[Krispy Kritter]

This can occur with various media formats and is usually the result of a corrupt file index. You can often open a bad file (using various tools depending on the file type) and then resave it to fix the file index.

[vanquish42]

Thank you for the information. In this case, I had to re-download the file for it to work properly.

For future reference, can files with a corrupt file index be saved with VLC? Or, do I have to convert them?

Thank you.

[redwudz]

VLC can 'transcode' files and save them, most simply with the 'Wizard' under the 'File' menu. However it does pop up this warning:

Please note that VLC is not very suited for file-to-file transcoding. Its transcoding features are more appropriate for network streams.

I would use it if nothing else is readily available. But other programs designed for your type of files would be a better choice most times.