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I found this old (possibly broken) MPEG1 video that I'd like to share. MPC-HC manages to play it, but most players cannot render it.

How can I fix and/or convert it to a format that most people can easily view?

I tried ffmpeg, but it fails with decoding errors. I also tried uploading to YouTube, a few GIF makers, and some online video conversion sites.

If you'd like to give it a try, I've shared the MPEG1 video here.

And here is the output of ffmpeg:

$ ffmpeg -i penguin.mpeg  penguin.mp4

ffmpeg version N-87871-g7480f232d2 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers

  built with gcc 7.2.0 (GCC)

  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libmfx

  libavutil      55. 79.100 / 55. 79.100

  libavcodec     57.108.100 / 57.108.100

  libavformat    57. 84.100 / 57. 84.100

  libavdevice    57. 11.100 / 57. 11.100

  libavfilter     6.108.100 /  6.108.100

  libswscale      4.  9.100 /  4.  9.100

  libswresample   2. 10.100 /  2. 10.100

  libpostproc    54.  8.100 / 54.  8.100

[mpeg1video @ 000001f671ae3a00] Invalid frame dimensions 0x0.

    Last message repeated 86 times

[mpegvideo @ 000001f671ac1ca0] decoding for stream 0 failed

[mpegvideo @ 000001f671ac1ca0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate

[mpegvideo @ 000001f671ac1ca0] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: mpeg1video, none(tv), 360x288, 921 kb/s): unspecified pixel format

Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options

Input #0, mpegvideo, from 'penguin.mpeg':

  Duration: 00:00:03.46, bitrate: 921 kb/s

    Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg1video, none(tv), 360x288, 921 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1200k tbn, 25 tbc

Stream mapping:

  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (mpeg1video (native) -> h264 (libx264))

Press [q] to stop, [?] for help

[mpeg1video @ 000001f671ae3ec0] Invalid frame dimensions 0x0.

    Last message repeated 1 times

Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid data found when processing input

[mpeg1video @ 000001f671ae3ec0] Invalid frame dimensions 0x0.

Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid data found when processing input

[mpeg1video @ 000001f671ae3ec0] Invalid frame dimensions 0x0.

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Nothing was written into output file 0 (penguin.mp4), because at least one of its streams received no packets.

frame=    0 fps=0.0 q=0.0 Lsize=       0kB time=-577014:32:22.77 bitrate=  -0.0kbits/s speed=N/A

video:0kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: unknown

Output file is empty, nothing was encoded (check -ss / -t / -frames parameters if used)

Conversion failed!

Why waste time trying to fix it? You can spend hours in failed attempts.

Since you can play it on your computer, you can use a screen recording program and capture the video as you play it to a usable format.

Programs such as VLC, OBS Studio, and countless others can capture video from desktop sessions.