id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	reproduced	analyzed
559	Can't decode .avi video	bf4648		"ffmpeg -i test.avi -vcodec copy out.mkv 
ffmpeg -i test.avi -vcodec copy out.mp4 

both commands result in the following error message: 

@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Vids$ ffmpeg -i test.avi -vcodec copy out.mkv
ffmpeg version N-33666-g7d2e467, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Oct 15 2011 15:52:19 with gcc 4.5.2
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab
  libavutil    51. 21. 0 / 51. 21. 0
  libavcodec   53. 20. 1 / 53. 20. 1
  libavformat  53. 16. 0 / 53. 16. 0
  libavdevice  53.  4. 0 / 53.  4. 0
  libavfilter   2. 43. 6 /  2. 43. 6
  libswscale    2.  1. 0 /  2.  1. 0
  libpostproc  51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0
[avi @ 0x1cb07c0] Something went wrong during header parsing, I will ignore it and try to continue anyway.
[avi @ 0x1cb07c0] parser not found for codec none, packets or times may be invalid.
[avi @ 0x1cb07c0] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000
Input #0, avi, from 'test.avi':
  Duration: 00:05:00.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1559 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: none (8[0][0][0] / 0x0038), 94x1819440243, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc
Output #0, matroska, to 'out.mkv':
Output file #0 does not contain any stream"	defect	closed	normal	avcodec	git-master	worksforme					0	0