[MEncoder-users] Bug: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -idx -o final.mpg vts_02_1.vob vts_02_2.vob

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 12/14/06, karl-heinz-1950 at web.de <karl-heinz-1950 at web.de> wrote:
> mencoder 1.0rc1
>
> I run the above command, output see below. Both vob files can be played with xine, the final.mpg file can't be played with xine (no picture, only sound, can't scroll). Since I don't change the video codec I am surprised. mplayer can play the file. Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug? If I just use the "join" UNIX command to join the files everything is fine.
>
> I don't think it is a xine problem since the original files can be played with xine.
>
> Additional question: is it normal that so many frames are skipped?
>
> Thanks.
> K.
>
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -idx -
> o final.mpg vts_02_1.vob vts_02_2.vob
> MEncoder 1.0rc1-SUSE Linux 10.0 (i686)-Packman-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 9)
> CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
>
> WARNING: OUTPUT FILE FORMAT IS _AVI_. See -of help.

This warning says it all

Please select MPEG muxer when you do this, which you can select with
-of mpeg if I recall correctly.

Guillaume
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