[MEncoder-users] MEncoder MPEG-2 framecopy

[Nico Sabbi]

Oded Shimon wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Using
>mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy bla.mpeg -o test.mpg -of mpeg -mpegopts 
>format=mpeg2
>
>I get a non-seekable mpeg2 file. MPlayer plays it, but when seeking it jumps 
>to EOF (or BOF..) and closes the file.
>
>MPEG1 framecopy works fine, I get a nice seekable MPEG file.
>
>Changing to -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video fixes this, I get a seekable 
>MPEG2 video.
>
>Is this a bug or an unsolvable limitation?..
>
>- ods15
>
>  
>

please, upload the file and post the filename