[MEncoder-users] Playing mencoder encoder movie in other players

[Phil Ehrens]

RC wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:19:44 +0600
> "Abu Zaher" <zaher14 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > At this point my guees is that for some reason any file more than 1GB
> > is not playable with other player in my pc, What's wrong?
> 
> MPlayer automatically uses ODML for files larger than 1GB.  To be
> more widely compatible, you can use "-noodml" for files up to 2GB.

Do you mean you can use -noodml when you know in advance that the
output will not exceed 2GB, or that using -noodml will cause the
ODML threashhold to be 2BG instead of 1GB?

And if you use 'mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -noodml' on a mencoder
produced .avi that is, say 1.5GB will it "fix" it?