[MPlayer-users] Playing while video still being written

[Ingo Brückl]

It's possible to play the beginning of an avi while this is still being
written while trying to play such an mp4 fails.

Any reason for that?

Ingo

[Nicolas George]

Post by Ingo Brückl
It's possible to play the beginning of an avi while this is still being
written while trying to play such an mp4 fails.
Any reason for that?

The short and long answer to that is that MP4 is an awful format.

Regards,