[MEncoder-users] I'm not sure about this is a bug?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 05:10:21PM +0200, Zimmermann, Daniel wrote:
> We send 1 CTRL+C to the invisible mencoder to say: "finish your encoding".

I am not completely sure that this is supposed to work. You could
probably (re)generate the index in a extra step (should be in the
documentation somewhere).

> Is it possible that Mencoder need sometimes more than 4 seconds to write the index in the avi file? Maybe when the file is very large?

Very unlikely, why do you think it is the index writing that causes the
problem? Maybe mencoder hangs in a network read or something like that?
And just in case you should update to SVN version 26321 or newer.

>Because we send after 1sec. CTRL+C again and this up to 10 times if Mencoders generated file is not readable yet.
[...]
> Is it possible, that Mencoder is terminating WITHOUT writing his Index because more than 1 CTRL+C Keystroke is quickly sent?

No, from the mencoder code side this does not seem possible. But from
the line quoted before I guess you are using Windows, and that always
does the most idiotic things, it might be Windows that just kills the program.
I'd suggest comparing the behaviour with the one under Linux, Solaris,
*BSD, OSX or whatever (and for those I'd also strongly recommend to use
an ordinary 'kill' instead of any CTRL+C hacks).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger