[MPlayer-users] 2Gb file limit and ogm

[Van Leer]

Mencoder stops, doing as you said the audio goes out of sync.

vanleer

Moritz Bunkus wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>Hi.
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>>main problem is: when doing the 3 pass encoding if I compress the video 
>>stream I obtain a desyncronized audio into the final ogm file. If I use 
>>pcm as audio code it works all right but the final file size is over the 
>>2 Gb limit and so it stops.
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>??? What does stop? mencoder? ogmmerge?
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>If you want to avoid that you can do a '4 pass encoding':
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>1. encode audio with mp3lame into frameno.avi
>2. and 3. do the video encoding just like always
>4. extract the audio with mplayer into pcm, e.g. mplayer -ao pcm
>-aofile audio.wav -vo null -vc dummy -dvd-device ... -dvd 1
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>This way no AVI should be larger than 2Gb.  Of course encoding to MP3
>takes its time.
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