[MEncoder-users] divx hardware player cannot seek or fast forward

[Giacomo Comes]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:21:16AM -1000, alee wrote:
> Giacomo Comes wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:34:11AM -1000, alee wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Hi, does anyone have any problem encoding using mencoder for divx files 
> >>and the divx file cannot seek or fast forward in a hardware divx 
> >>player?  I have a toshiba sd-k860.  Some files are able to seek and fast 
> >>forward but some files cannot.  I use the same command line for everyone 
> >>of them except the vbitrate and crop which I change as needed:
> >>
> >>mencoder dvd://1 -ofps 24000/1001 -oac copy -vf \
> >>filmdint,crop=704:448:8:14 -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
> >>vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1800:v4mv:mbd=1:autoaspect:vpass=1 -aid 128 \
> >>-ffourcc DX50 -o output.avi
> >>
> >>Do I need to add any other options?
> >>Thanks.
> >
> >Try the suggestions described here:
> >http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/46770
> >Pay attention to point 8.
> >
> >Giacomo
> >
> Tried -forceidx.  Did not work.  Still cannot seek or fast forward.

If you just added -forceidx to your command line then it is not supposed to work.
If you used -forceidx togheter with -oac copy -ovc copy then you have a different
kind of problem. Try to use the lavf muxer, may be it helps.

Giacomo